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...that tends increasingly toward gloom, horror and mathematical coldness in art, the painter who makes a critical success with warm and happy pictures is an exception. Such an artist is Vytautas Kasiulis, 36, a refugee from Lithuania, whose one-man show in Paris last week was a solid hit with critics and buyers alike...
...last six months, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art has bought three of his paintings. The pictures in last week's show were also selling well, at around $200 each, and the critics enthusiastically hailed Kasiulis as an oasis of joy in a desert of gloom and pessimism...
...Fifth Fear. Finally, said the President, the nation is afraid of unemployment and depression. Unemployment has risen as "a result of our efforts to go from a war to a peace economy." and the unemployment total "happily shows every sign now of leveling off." The mongers of gloom, he noted, "never say to you that there are more than 60 million people today gainfully employed in the United States . . . Employment that is very near to an alltime high . . . We have also a Government that is ready to act whenever necessary...
...Paul Hoffman and Lockheed's Robert Gross) was proud and happy to oblige. "I contend," said Beck, "that we are in a very serious recession. Ten weeks ago, I stated that the auto industry was in a terrible condition. Everybody said I was a prophet of gloom. But about three weeks later the Wall Street Journal came out with an article about the trouble the auto industry was having. What is the sense of closing our eyes to the facts? You can't take something out of the bucket unless it's in the bucket...
...annual mid-March gloom is pierced this year by a ray of hope, no doubt originating in the fact that federal individual income taxes in 1954 have already come down an average of 10%, and other federal tax cuts are on the way (although the trend of state and local taxes is still...