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...Polish uprisings against the Russians 100 years ago-a theme with sledgehammer relevance in Poland today. The Eastern Europeans are also encouraged by the occasional sounds of independence they hear from Moscow, where Aleksandr Tvardovsky, the editor of the literary weekly Novy Mir, last week threw out a defiant challenge to the regime. "We will listen to criticism," he said, "only when it is worth the great traditions of Russian realism...
Genovès' subject is the individual pinpointed by the camera in the middle of a crowd. Relying for inspiration on sheaves of photographs and films, he creates shadowy monochromatic canvases filled with silhouettes of dozens of tiny people running, fighting, pathetic, but defiant. Sometimes, beneath the shadow of an unseen airplane, his people stream across an open plaza routed from a riot, or perhaps in some more existential form of flight. Other canvases are composed of a series of panels reminiscent of a strip of movie film or contact prints: La Protesta (the Protest), for example, shows...
...conclusion: there had been none. No democratic freedom had evolved. Criticism and research in literature, sociology, modern history and the arts were still sharply inhibited. The old Stalinist penal code was still in existence and arbitrarily applied. The students applauded wildly, and several rose to support Kolakowski's defiant conclusion...
...withholding from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. $232,000 in auto workers' dues for two months, finally paying an installment of half the amount last week. Though few in the labor movement believe that Reuther will pull out of the giant federation, he is expected to pursue an even more defiant course, further weakening the organization's unity of purpose...
...message (not to mention the bombing runs) probably accurately portrayed the level of communication that has long existed between Antioch and the local military authorities. Thus it seemed only natural that when the National Collegiate Conference on the Draft met at Antioch two weeks ago, it should assume a defiant stance against the military establishment...