Word: van
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HENRY P. VAN DUSEN Princeton...
Actually, a great deal of significant anti-intellectualism today comes not from outside but inside the intellectual community. New York University Sociologist Ernest van den Haag points out that much campus protest, though carried on in the name of academic freedom, is really mindlessly anti-intellectual in its indiscriminate call for "activism" and hell raising. Critic Renata Adler thinks that perhaps the strongest anti-intellectual forces at present are the "uneducated and unearned nihilism" of pop art, which holds that the meaningless is entertaining, and the enthusiasm for "camp," which holds that the mediocre and the ugly are amusing...
...Netherlands has two especially outstanding monetary experts: Nether lands Bank President Marius Holtrop, 62, a first-rate banker of conservative leanings who is now president of the Bank for International Settlements, and Treasurer General Emile van Lennep, 50, who heads both Working Party III and the Common Market Monetary-Committee. Says Van Lennep, a jonkheer whose title of nobility dates from the early 19th century: "With Working Party III, a new dimension has been added to international monetary discussions. Now we discuss the problems of countries with surpluses as well as those with deficits...
Died. Edgar Austin Mittelholzer, 53, English author of 22 novels, many of them (Children of Kaywana, The Harrowing of Hubertus, Kaywana Blood) set in his native British Guiana and peopled by members of the violent, lust-crazed Van Groenwegel family; by his own hand (he soaked his clothing in gasoline, then set himself aflame); in Farnham, Surrey...
...Crimson will be playing without the services of midfielders Harry Van Oudenallen and Dexter Newton again on Saturday. Newton who played in the Holy Cross game after being out most of the season with a broken collarbone, has broken his collarbone again...