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Cubes & Guitars. The show, in sum, is a mirror of modern French sculp ture. The son of a poor Parisian worker, Laurens began his career, after stud ies with a decorative sculptor, in a rundown house on a dead end Montmartre street. The year was 1911. Cub ism was in full flower, and Georges Braque lived only a few doors away...
...outspoken Russian poet is as good as his word. He spits when the mood strikes him, and he seems care less of the consequences. When Nikita Khrushchev personally upbraided him for his unconventional poetry, Voznesensky stubbornly refused to recant. When critics attacked him for formal ism, which in Soviet jargon means experimenting with the language, Voznesensky replied in verse: "They nag me about formalism./Formaldehyde: you stink of it and incense." He helped to stir up the Soviet Writers Congress last May by signing a letter boldly calling for an end to Soviet censorship. Last week copies of a Voznesensky...
...news has changed. It has become a very liberal paper, in the modern concept of liberalism. I'll not look in it for my kind of stuff any more." What he will be missing in the Times, Krock explains, is his own brand of Wilsonian liberal ism. "That has now become conservative, and to some, almost reactionary...
More than the definition of liberal ism, as Krock sees it, has changed in the U.S. President Johnson, in particular, has changed. "I didn't see any of the Great Society compulsory stuff in his days as a young Congressman." Today, says Krock, Johnson is a "sly and devious man." From the reporter's point of view, Harry Truman was the great President-"absolutely candid, not a bone of secrecy in his body and scarcely one of reticence...
...their own letter, the Chinese found other secret Soviet slanders to complain about. "You wantonly vilified the Chinese Communist Party as being guilty of 'adventurism,' 'split-ism,' 'Trotskyism,' 'nationalism,' 'dogmatism' and so on and so forth. You have also been spreading rumors alleging that China 'is obstructing aid to Viet Nam.' You have gone so far as to state that 'China is not a Socialist country...