Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Majestic House. Knowing that Wilhelmina was not in good health, her people were not surprised last week but they were profoundly moved. Said Mrs. Bet van Beeren, 46-year-old Amsterdamer: "I can remember her walking through the streets of Amsterdam 25 years ago, always with a smile and a hand outstretched. She was democratic, but majestic. She was the House of Orange, which is Holland...
Paul D. Bartlett will be the new Erving Professor of Chemistry, succeeding Arthur B. Lamb. The four new full professors will be: George Wald, professor of Biology; Harry T. Levin '33, professor of English; Willa'd Van O. Quine, professor of Philosophy; and Heinrich Schneider, professor of German...
...Play a Bad Card . . ." "I felt I had something to do in politics," says Spaak of this period, "but all the doors were closed." In 1935, a door opened. Premier Paul van Zeeland asked him to enter the Cabinet as Minister of Transport, Posts & Telegraphs. Spaak accepted. Then, excitedly, he telephoned his mother: "Maman, if your telephone breaks down, complain directly to me. I'm the new Communications Minister." The next year he became Foreign Minister...
Receiving its first performance was the Sonatine for Clarinet and Strings by the conductor, Nicholas Van Slyck. A clarinet work is always awaited with some apprehension, but such fears were unjustified, for Aaron Johnson played eloquently and without a waver. The work is a very interesting one for its changing rhythms and themes. Step by step I think it has fascination, but at the close, I had little feeling for its unity...
...hardly worthwhile to find little faults with the orchestra. Van Slyck conducted with confidence, kept the players together at all times, and built the music logically and skillfully. I did object to the concertmaster's obtrusive leadership throughout all the music--in the Bach his pizzicato was louder than the soloist's. The few peculiar noises which eminted from the violin section did not appear during the Bach work, possibly because of the foundation which the piano provided. All in all, the concert was a great success, a combination of good programming and superior performance...