Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene, who concluded that part of the upset was gastric: Italians boarded with Dutch families, ate heavy Dutch food, and "digesting potatoes, even for one day," concluded the committee soberly, "is a punishment for an Italian.'' A happier solution to the Italian housing problem in Holland was found by lodging 100 Latins on a 30,000-ton ship anchored in the North Sea canal at Ijmuiden. directly opposite the steel plant where they work. Aboard the floating hotel they were served Italian food...
...fill about 150,000 job vacancies, Holland last year opened a recruiting station in Milan, signed up 4,000 workers. Some 2,000 Spaniards are also on their way. The largest foreign labor force in Holland is composed of Belgians, hundreds of whom leave Antwerp daily by chartered...
...theater should be truly national, and that Broadway would improve if its productions were to be assembled somewhere else than on Manhattan Island. This, by Scott's description, is admittedly like ''trying to drive a camel through the eye of a needle, the eye being the Holland Tunnel." But "the theater is strangling itself in the Broadway struggle," he says, "Most plays are produced on a limited-partner basis. The same money is used over and over again." And this financial centralization creates "indirect censorship"-that is, relatively few people decide what plays will be done. Different...
...most Broadway productions are cast, built and rehearsed in New York before a brief trial fling on the road, the Theater of Michigan will cast all of its plays, build its sets, rehearse, and hold tryouts in Detroit, then bring the wrapped package to the west end of the Holland Tunnel and shove it through. "Imagine a prosperous Broadway,"* Scott expands, "supported some day by the Theater of Michigan, the Theater of Kentucky, the Theater of Kansas, and so on. Then we'll have the Theater of the U.S.A...
...Velde was born in Holland in 1895, and by the time he was twelve had found a niche in art. He was apprenticed to an interior decorator as a wall painter; his talent quickly advanced him from walls to designing lampshades to copying, old masters. The decorator sent Van Yelde to a German artists' colony where he discovered "painting as a language to translate the world and one's life." But his translations were so brutal and sad that no one wanted them, and when the Depression came, the decorator cut off Van Velde's stipend...