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From Coexistence to Nonexistence. "A first point to notice about this question of coexistence is that we have, in fact, been coexisting with Communism for the past 35 years. But another and more significant point is that a good many countries such as the Baltic States. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania ... which coexisted with the U.S.S.R. for some years, now have ceased to exist at all as free nations. Coexistence is no problem for them. It has become the coexistence of Jonah and the whale that swallowed...
Died. Dr. Vincas Kreve-Mickevicius, 71, short-time (June-August, 1940) Foreign Minister of Lithuania; of a heart ailment; in Marple, Pa. Ousted from his post for protesting Russia's seizure of power in Lithuania, Dr. Kreve-Mickevicius fled in 1944, taught Russian at the University of Pennsylvania from 1947 until his retirement last year...
...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...
Painter Kasiulis is as gentle and unpretentious as the characters of his paintings -and as much a victim of hard knocks as they. Before 1943 he taught drawing at the Fine Arts School in Kaunas, the capital of his native Lithuania. Then the Nazis shipped him off as a slave laborer to an East Prussian farm. There Kasiulis milked cows and painted portraits of local German bigwigs, a service for which he was rewarded with extra food rations. After the war, helped by sympathetic Allied officers, he made his way to Paris, where he got a job as a nightwatchman...
Like Koerner, Bloom is Jewish and European-born. Brought to the U.S. from Lithuania by his shoemaker father, he was raised humbly in Boston. Bloom was introduced to painting in a settlement house, continued it on the WPA and gained fame in the early '40s. His first important canvases showed the influence of the European expressionists Chaim Soutine and Oskar Kokoshka. He applied their color-by-the-gob technique to molten-seeming canvases of rabbis, chandeliers, brides, Christmas trees, buried treasure and, finally, corpses. At 40, Bloom exercises a control of his medium as elaborate, and theatrical, as Caravaggio...