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Isaac F. Silvera, an American experimental physicist at the University of Amsterdam, Holland, will join Harvard's Physics Department next fall, bringing to an end a search that has lasted interminently for more than five years...
...Italians, Jews, Irish, blacks. The second category covers only the Amish. To say that the Amish are different is merely to state the obvious. They are followers of a sect that originated in Switzerland back in the 17th century and, in search of religious freedom, fled to England and Holland in the 18th century and moved to America in the 19th. In this day of home computers and space travel, the Amish eschew zippers as decadent, electricity as unnecessary and flush toilets as wasteful. They forgo the automobile in favor of sleek trotters and canvas-topped carriages of hickory wood...
...Many of the greatest Europeans-Herbert von Karajan and the late Karl Böhm-learned their art this way. To be sure, the U.S. has its regional and community orchestras, but historically they have not led to posts with major organizations. Further, European record companies-like Philips of Holland-are willing to give young countrymen a push. Edo de Waart, 40, now music director of the San Francisco Symphony, first gained recognition in America as the director of The Netherlands Wind Ensemble through some records issued by Philips...
Meanwhile, the show in the existing Fogg continued to prove the worth of the museum. It is a retrospective-improbably enough, the only one ever held-of 56 paintings by Jacob van Ruisdael, who was by general consent the greatest landscape painter to live in 17th century Holland. It will not go elsewhere in the U.S., so anyone with a serious interest in the art of landscape should get to the Fogg before April 11. We see Ruisdael entire, for the first and perhaps the last time. The man, however, disappears behind the work. Little is known of his life...
...really" stood on the shore of the IJ. Some places he painted without seeing them at all. The Dutch market, in the late 1650s, had a vogue for Scandinavian waterfalls; Ruisdael obligingly painted about a hundred of them, undeterred by the fact that he had never been north of Holland. His Haarlempjes, or "Views of Haarlem," were also bread and butter; their usual format is one of the best-loved images of Dutch landscape-a wide, flat horizon, punctuated by a church tower, overwhelmed by blowing clouds and permeated by Ruisdael's mild northern light. They repeat themselves...