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...Emigration can never be the complete solution," says Prime Minister Willem Drees. "We absolutely have to industrialize if we want to prevent mass unemployment in the future. Nothing hurts people's happiness so much as unemployment or the fear of unemployment...
...hardheaded commercial dealings had founded the empire. (Their pictures would soon be replaced by Soekarno's favorite paintings of Indonesian national heroes.) The old pictures sat unceremoniously on the floor: bewigged Johannes Camphuys (1684-91), great governor and great gardener, whose followers introduced coffee-growing to Java; Herman Willem Daendels (1808-11), governor general and dictatorial reformer; Johannes van den Bosch (1830-33), governor general, paternalist exponent of a forced-labor system. The workmen loaded the pictures of the past into a truck to begin their long voyage home...
...tenets of its faith can never be discussed with the least implication of compromise.* Therefore, Archbishop Michael contends, dogmatic discussions or official positions are now forbidden to priests of the Church of Greece. The World Council of Churches, he added, has already been informed through its general secretary, Willem Visser 't Hooft, of the decision...
Most of the pictures on the walls looked like more or less distorted reflections of each other. Jackson Pollock's nonobjective snarl of tar and confetti, entitled No. 14, was matched by Willem DeKooning's equally fashionable and equally blank tangle of tar and snow called Attic. If their sort of painting represented the most vital force in contemporary U.S. art, as some critics had contended...
Brahms: Tragic Overture (Concertgebouw Orchestra, Willem Mengelberg conducting; Capitol-Telefunken, 4 sides). The competition is tough (Beecham, Toscanini), but this performance stands with the best of them. Recording: good...