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...mainland, the worried members met to consider whether or not they should disband. Lew Kay, 62, an American of Chinese parentage and the first Chinese graduate of the University of Washington (1909), rose to plead for going on. "Of course many fellow Americans find it difficult to grasp what is happening in China today," he said. "All the more reason why we, who know the importance of free China, should keep up our work. To abandon it is to abandon our own conscience." He paused, clutched his chest and fell dead of a heart attack...
...when Khrushchev and Bulganin took over. Shtykov's return to favor is the latest in a series of significant changes in the Communist Party superstructure in the past month (others: in the Russian Republic, Lithuania, Uzbekistan). This sudden flurry of shake-ups apparently represents Khrushchev's increased grasp of the party machinery on the eve of this week's 20th Communist Party Congress in Moscow, the first since Stalin's death...
...While resolutely pursuing these aims, which are the products of our faith in God and in the peoples of the earth, we shall eagerly grasp any opportunity to free mankind of the pall of fear and insecurity which now obscures what can and should be a glorious future...
...Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) liked to call himself "the painter from Maine." But he traveled considerably in Europe, appraised its art with a shrewd Yankee eye. Hartley was the first American to grasp the power of German expressionism, immediately adapted the experiments of Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc to his own ends. His German Officer (opposite) is as tumultuous as anything painted before World War II, though not so bold as today's abstract expressionism...
...burning eyes of the passionate Hungarian studied her for a long moment, and it seemed that the decision to possess her was made in that instant. 'As an artist you have no equal,' she said tritely, as he held her hand in a fervent and prolonged grasp . . . Only a few hours later, her body stripped of the clothes that hid its superb beauty, Lola sought to achieve the heights of passion which Liszt so obviously enjoyed...