Word: willems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reflect the merits of modern American painting, but it is a jolting reminder of the power and influence of the new academy of abstract expressionism. Throughout most of the Whitney last week chaos reigned. More than a score of exhibitors seemed to feel that where there's a Willem (de Kooning) there's a way-through large and sticky briars of paint to a darkling goal...
...fourth triennial conference of the Inter-Seminary Movement, sponsored by the National Council of Churches at Ohio's Oberlin College, The Netherlands' Dr. Willem A. Visser't Hooft told 500 Protestant theology students to be both "slaves and spokesmen'' of Christianity. Said Dr. Visser't Hooft. general secretary of the World Council of Churches and a minister of The Netherlands Reformed Church: "There is a new search for authority in the world today [and ] insofar as we are slaves and spokesmen, the minister has the same authority as Christ." This authority is "total...
Through the Sound Barrier. The effort involved in reorienting around a central image seemed as hard to Ferren as "breaking through the sound barrier." In fact, some such move has long been in the offing. Abstractionist Willem de Kooning first tried it with his grotesque woman images (TIME, April 4, 1953), only to relapse into abstraction. Drip Originator Jackson Pollock was himself struggling with half-glimpsed totem images before his death in an auto crash last August. Younger painters are now pulling and punching areas of pigment on their canvases to achieve a new-found "landscape look" that has been...
Juliana's renewed obstinacy prompted two of her three wise men to protest that she had gone back on her word, and this in turn so angered the Queen that she threatened to broadcast her version of the story to her subjects. When pro tern Premier Willem Drees heard of this, he told Juliana bluntly that he had given orders to broadcasting authorities not to permit the Queen to go on the air. Meanwhile, far from fulfilling his ordained role in the masquerade of renewed connubiality, Prince Bernhard, the Queen's husband, made less and less effort...
...manager of the New York Philharmonic (since 1946 with Bruno Zirato, once Enrico Caruso's secretary), Judson saw the orchestra through its greatest days, when Arturo Toscanini was principal conductor (1927-36), and made virtuoso conductors into star attractions, e.g., Willem Mengelberg, Erich Kleiber, Bruno Walter. Operating on Judson's well-developed business instincts, the Philharmonic swallowed up rival orchestras (including the old New York Symphony...