Word: willems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite Piet Mondrian, not all Dutch artists are squares. The most noted American abstract expressionist, Willem de Kooning, is Rotterdam Dutch, and his opposite number in Europe, Karel Appel, is Amsterdam Dutch. Last week Appel both enthralled and infuriated the home town with a major retrospective at Amsterdam's Municipal Museum. Appel himself stayed in his house in Paris. "I can't stand Holland," Appel confided fiercely, "for more than two or three days...
High-scoring center forward Armando Garces is known throughout Ivy territory for his propensity for trampling goalies. Garces will be joined on the attack by insides Bob Pearson and Willem Van Den Toorn. Arnold Hetzer leads a strong halfback corps, and Dick Press paces the defense from his fullback position. Goalie Denny Master has been difficult to score on so far this year...
...German, Belgian, French, Canadian, British, Italian, Dutch, Swiss and U.S. professors. To be accepted, each student has to speak two of the teaching languages, be able to understand a third. Initially, classes are being conducted in a corner of the palace, a French national monument, but Director General Willem Christopher Posthumus Meyjes, a Dutch diplomat, expects in four years to have a new campus outside Paris. Ultimate goal: 800-900 graduates a year...
Aboard the Dutch freighter Utrecht, carrying sugar, general cargo and eleven passengers from Singapore to New York, perhaps no man was more envied by his fellow crewmen than Willem Marie Louis Van Rie, the ship's radio officer. He was a newcomer to the 62-man crew, son of the headmaster of a Roman Catholic school in Holland, married (18 months ago to the daughter of a leather manufacturer), a prospective father. Moreover, handsome Willem Van Rie had something that most sailors can only dream about as they toss in their lonely bunks on the heaving seas: a pretty...
...Willem de Kooning, by Thomas B. Hess, discusses De Kooning's harsh, fast, and fluorescent brand of abstract expressionism in elaborately sophisticated terms, is occasionally apt, often provocative...