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Even when turn-of-the-century artists tried to get the dramatic realism of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky into painting, none got much closer than Painter Ilya Repin's stagy Ivan the Terrible...
Another Russian had been taking a good close look at the U.S. But Tamara Chernashova, unlike her more famous and less candid countryman, Journalist Ilya Ehrenburg (TIME, July 8), had no ax to grind...
Last week, nearing the end of her first eye-opening trip outside Russia. Tamara dipped carefully into her small stock of English words, came up with: "American life is surrounded by washing machines but there is more underneath." Like Ilya Ehrenburg, she had spent a large part of her time in the South (Gilmore's home is in Selma, Ala.). She was astonished at the friendliness of average people. "They send you flowers and cake and never say who it is from." At Maxwell Field, Alabama, she had an experience that amazed her: the commanding general conducted...
...Ilya Ehrenburg, back in Russia after a ten-week journalistic junket through the U.S. and Canada, gave Izvestia readers an outsize report on America and Americans. Highlights: "Everything . . . is different - cities, trees and customs. . . . I have been to dinners and meetings. First every body hurriedly chews chicken, then orators make long speeches, then singers sing sentimental songs, then a priest collects money for some benevolent fund. . . ." Ehrenburg said that he ran into one group of "provincial dummies . . . convinced that with the help of Esperanto they could make the atomic bomb harmless." But he had great admiration for America...
...Ilya Ehrenburg's "thanks-and-good-bye" letter to the U.S. (TIME, July 8) was thickly spread with applesauce. Soviet Russia's visiting Ehrenburg, who turned off all criticisms of Russia by criticisms of the U.S., had moved even the leftist Nation to complain of this "talented but transparent propagandist." Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Walter Lippmann: "Surely somewhere in the recesses of [Ehrenburg's] conscience, since he is a highly educated man, a still small voice must be saying that he does not, did not, and cannot write as honestly about...