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When Painter Arshile Gorky died in 1948, the New York Times gave the story a mere 15 lines-and perhaps it would not have run even that much had it not believed, mistakenly, that the artist was "a first cousin of Maxim Gorky, the writer." Hindsight proves that the press and public sadly wronged Arshile Gorky. As two new shows in Manhattan demonstrate, he was one of the significant U.S. painters of this century...
...after a 16-year lapse.* But as suspicions and ill-feeling grew between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. and Communist intriguing spread throughout the hemisphere, Constantine Oumansky, a schemer and conniver, took over. Then, in the critical years of World War II, when Russia desperately needed U.S. help, grandfatherly Maxim Litvinov became ambassador. He was pro-Western, cooperative and eager to please-as befitted the envoy of an embattled ally. But as the tide of victory turned, Litvinov was supplanted by the dour Andrei Gromyko, and as the cold war worsened, Gromyko and his successors were progressively frosty...
...Gordeyev Family (Artkino), a Russian export amplified from a novel (Foma Gordeyev) by Maxim Gorky, is a visual experience that roars across the screen with the rage and razmakh of a flash fire on the steppes. Unfortunately it is also a piece of Marxist propaganda that suggests Premier Khrushchev might profitably send some of his moviemakers to Siberia-to stimulate corn production...
...major nations with the possible exception of Germany." Hostility to another nation is not the cause of a war, but rather a preliminary or by-product. "Governments seldom engage in the emotionalism they encourage in people." But Russia's hatred of Germany might prove an exception to this maxim...
...project, which will open a 27-ft. waterway through the Soo Locks and the Detroit, St. Clair and St. Marys rivers. The Seaway should benefit ultimately, too, from major new iron mines being developed in Labrador and from steadily mounting U.S. and Canadian exports. Says Chicago Regional Port Director Maxim Cohen: "We're just a waddling infant. It will probably be 1965 before we can take off our diapers and put on pants...