Word: hollander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daughter by a woman named Greet Hofmans. Spinster Hofmans (now 61) was a mild-mannered, harsh-voiced woman who was born to poverty and spent a bleak childhood nursing a sick mother. In middle age, after an unrewarding life as a social worker and factory hand, she moved to Holland's hard-bitten north, where piety and superstition often walk hand in hand. There, she said, she had a personal talk with God who offered her miraculous powers for the benefit of her fellow man, if she would renounce all worldly claims. "Of course," Greet Hofmans said, "I accepted...
...University of Milan's "European Conference on the Esthetics of Television," delegates from Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, debated for days about TV ground rules, agreed on nothing but a definition of television's role: "To distract, inform and instruct...
...will sing at the Holland festival June 17, Amsterdam, 19; Heerlen, 20; Brussels, 22; Tours, 23; Orleans, 24; Paris, 26; Florence, 28; Siena...
This year it will open its continental concert series with a performance for the Holland Festival at the Hague, then will sing in Belgium and Paris. Concerts are also arranged for Tours and Orleans in France, Siena and Perugia in Italy, Freiburg and Munich in Germany, Cambridge and Buckingham in England...
...first American news source to give ample and thoroughgoing consideration to this farce of justice. H. J. THEULINGS Oosterhout, Holland...