Word: hollande
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...best shows MOMA has ever held--a worthy successor to its surveys of the two other 20th century titans, Picasso and Matisse. In its New York form, the exhibition includes paintings that, owing to their fragility, couldn't be lent to earlier venues in Washington and Holland--Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942-43, and Victory Boogie Woogie, left unfinished at his death...
...essence that underwrote the mere accidents of the world as it is. Reach that essence, and consciousness would be transfigured. This mystical idea had a long history, running from Plato through medieval Catholicism and thence to the pseudo religion of Theosophy, to which Mondrian adhered in his youth in Holland...
Joseph Michael Holland...
...Holland had a reputation as a "hot stick." He once climbed so steeply that fuel flowed out of the vent holes on top of the B-52's wing tanks. His hard flying in one air show popped 500 rivets during a prohibited climb, and he put his B-52 into a "death spiral" over one of his daughter's high school softball games. One copilot complained he had to wrestle control from Holland, who cleared a ridgeline by three feet during a run three months before his final flight. Most ominously, junior crewmembers said Holland had often talked about...
...Holland case is only one in a catalog of little-known but horrific disasters detailed in a confidential report by Alan Diehl, the Air Force's former top civilian safety official. The litany -- obtained by TIME last week -- includes 30 cases of mangled military probes and cover-ups by "incompetents, charlatans and sycophants." Diehl charges that Air Force crash probes are routinely sabotaged by officers seeking to please superiors, hide culpability and avoid embarrassment. Accidents like Holland's, says Diehl, "suggest the all too familiar pattern of ignoring dangerous behavior of certain individuals, especially when they are well liked, regarded...