Word: hollanders
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...Sunday. Advertising on TV has achieved this growth despite the opposition of people who feel that it gives too much direct influence to the advertiser and of those who, like many of the British, consider it an esthetic affront. It has also been harnessed by numerous restrictions. Belgium, Holland and the three Scandinavian countries still ban all TV commercials. Even in those countries that allow it, the typical TV ad is decidedly soft-sell, is aired only at certain times at night; in Switzerland, TV ads are never shown on Sunday...
Even countries that resisted TV ad vertising-notably Holland, Denmark and Norway-now find themselves debating whether to relax their bans against it. And Britain's venerable government-operated British Broadcasting Corp., where a few years back the very mention of advertising was enough to evoke "cries of horror and alarm," as the Economist once put it, has now begun to reconsider its stand against commercials...
...root of the crisis goes all the way back to 1830, when the Catholic Flemings and Walloons broke away from Protestant Holland to form a new country. For more than a century, the prosperous Walloons dominated things from their industrial southern strongholds; the northern Flemings were the poor relations. After World War II the balance shifted. The population advantage moved to the Flemings-5,250,000 to 4,000,000-and industry flocked to the cheap labor supply of Flanders. Flemish nationalism flourished, and Flemings bitterly protested that, although Dutch and French had official parity, French was still the language...
...eight operas by Franz Joseph Haydn. The scores, written in the master's hand between 1762 and 1780, were in various states of disrepair. Landon set himself to the task of preparing them for production. Last week the Landon-restored Le Pescatrici (The Fisherwomen) opened at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam to critical acclaim: "A score which swarms with pleasing musical finds"; "Some arias and duets are jewels which nobody other than Haydn could have...
Cornell alumni elected one of Cornell's alltime heroes, Jerome ("Brud") Holland, 49, a Negro. An All-America end in 1937-38 who was named to football's Hall of Fame this year, Holland holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania and is president of Virginia's Hampton Institute...