Word: exhibiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lire, Communists could measure their strength by pulling a huge sickle which-when pulled hard enough-brought a huge hammer crashing down on the head of a fat capitalist dummy in frock coat and top hat. For less athletic comrades, Unità made its points more subtly, in exhibits of socio-political art and Russian literature. An elderly Russian woman in a lacy Ukrainian peasant blouse stood by the book exhibit. A young associate explained: "Mrs. Jakobs is here on purpose to translate the Russian writings into Italian for the comrades. If a comrade asked her, she could translate...
...could not be compared with the high standards in postwar sculpture set in more conventional works by Milanese Artists Marino Marini (TIME, May 30) and Giacomo Manzu (TIME, July 18), who have been winning praise in both Britain and the U.S. but for lack of new work to exhibit were not represented in the Varese show...
Londoners, thronging last week to the annual "Radio Olympia" exhibit, got their first glimpse of British color-TV (based on the same system developed in the U.S. by CBS). They found the colors pretty but strangely light, as though the image had been painted in watercolors instead of oils. Color-TV for the British public seems at least ten years off, but the manufacturers, Pye Ltd., were trying to sell closed-circuit installations to department stores, hospitals, universities. A Pye official even saw an atomic future for color-TV: "In industrial process, the watching of color changes at different parts...
Following the Festival, the exhibit started a two-months tour of Hungary. After the Budapest showing, considering preeure from inside the U. S. delegation toned it down and emphasized other than "negative aspects," but thousbeen circulated...
This alteration of the exhibit was one of the few cases where group pressure was able to change the policy of the delegation for, as Warshaw points out, the U. S. group worked in "an internal atmosphere of fear and suspicion. "The suspicion and mistrust within the group," he states, "worked against democracy and fair play...