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...have a broader instrument," studied conducting, was soon picked as assistant conductor of the Dutch Radio Philharmonic. In frequent guest stints with the Concertgebouw, Haitink has already replaced the light, silvery Eduard Van Beinum tone with a darker, deeper glow reminiscent of the way the orchestra sounded under Willem Mengelberg. Some critics call him too nuchter (sober), but, says Haitink, "after my first wild years, I am just trying to get a balance between my heart and my head...
Colleagues sometimes tease Astronomer Willem J. Luyten of the University of Minnesota by calling him a "stellar mortician" because of his passionate interest in dying stars. Luyten does not mind the ribbing; the faint pinpoints of light that he studies are the end products of stellar evolution and hold many secrets of the universe. Recently, Astronomer Luyten found the dimmest star yet: a minuscule "white dwarf that emits 50,000 times less light than the sun, yet probably contains an equal or greater mass. "This one," he says, "looks to be at the end of the line...
...challenge that faced them, said the World Council's General Secretary Willem Visser 't Hooft, was to "make the church relevant to the world of today.'' They set about it with well-oiled organization, split up into 60 international and interdenominational discussion groups, had time left over for sightseeing and miscellaneous frolics; the French contingent startled W.C.C. officials by electing a Swedish sex kitten "Miss Ecumenia.'' In a gesture of harmony, the Roman Catholic bishop of Geneva and Lausanne sent five observers to the assembly, and a special Mass was celebrated in Lausanne invoking...
...Yale University Art Gallery. Last week in New Haven, the second Yale alumni loan show was drawing record throngs. They were inspecting 265 new selections of Yale art-from a 15th century wood panel, The Betrothal of St. Catherine of Siena, by Hans Holbein the Elder, to a contemporary Willem de Kooning oil, Souvenir to Toulouse...
...times when a canvas seems to have a life that is completely its own. The flavor or color of a remembered land scape may start things off, but then the painting process takes over ("If it lasts too long, I get bored"). Once, when one such canvas was done, Willem de Kooning, 56, the Grand Old Man of the New York School, dubbed it Christmas Tree, because it had been painted at that time of year. But Joan Mitchell remembered the dark and blue feeling of a Wallace Stevens poem that spoke of peacocks and hemlocks. "So I called...