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...whom a large part of the Dutch people meets with reluctance." The Calvinist daily Trouw, which came out in favor of the match, was barraged with angry letters; though published letters against the marriage averaged 55% in most papers, editors conceded privately that the actual mail was nearer 70% against. A few orange swastikas appeared on street walls in The Hague with the slogan "Claus 'raus!" (Claus...
...novel Little Lord Fauntleroy. The bestseller: Nissan's $1,566 Bluebird, named for "the bluebird of happiness" m the Maurice Maeterlinck play. Though these cars are rugged, functional and economical, they cannot compete in styling and roominess with most U.S. and European makes, which will be nearer to the Japanese prices when the tariffs are reduced...
...popular at the turn of the century. But once shredded by Ives, run through a wringer of dissonance and woven into his complex fabric of rhythms, they were not easily recognized. In the first movement, for example, the doom-laden theme in the basses sounded against a background of Nearer, My God, to Thee, softly played by a chamber ensemble isolated at the rear of the orchestra. Then the violins joined in with The Sweet Bye and Bye, intertwined with clashes of brass and drums and another hymn sung by an 18-voice chorus. The second movement, beginning with...
Different colors have different densities, feel nearer, more vibrant or softer than others; as in Olitski's subtle color washes. Those are predominently on a flat surface. The importance of the surface in contemperary art is brilliantly discussed by Fried in the "nexus o formal "nexus of formal issues" contained in the catalogue accompanying the exhibition: The first of "these issues concerns the ability of line, in modernist painting . . . to be read as bounding a shape or figure, whether abstract or representational...
...drug or other treatment seems to have any effect, and doctors are no nearer to finding a cause or cure for restless legs than they were three centuries ago when the symptom was first reported by English Physician Thomas Willis.* The only practical prescription remains unchanged: wake up and walk...