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...fact, attempted to dampen Serbian national fervor. He reportedly aroused Tito's ire last year by warning him against rising Croat separatism before Tito was ready to acknowledge it. Other prominent Serbs who resigned under pressure were Serbian Central Committee Secretary Latinka Perović and Foreign Minister Mirko Tepavac. The premier of Slovenia, Stane Kavćić, and a Serbian member of the Presidium, Koca Popović, resigned voluntarily out of sympathy. Vague charges of "anarcho-liberalism" were leveled at those purged. Still Tito's tough action delivered the message to the Serbs and the Slovenes that...
Even though Mirko had a studio on the VAC's fifth floor, he was thought of more as teacher than sculptor around Harvard. This was partly because he always maintained that "I am not a star" and declined to show his work at the center...
...Mirko could only speak softly, but he always got excited when a student made something that showed a new level of understanding. And his sculpture, too, tended to be gentle, even when monumental...
...Ford Foundation gave him a grant this year to return to Rome (where he spent every summer) so he could sculpt rather than teach next semester. Mirko was anxious to go. "I am not so young," he explained; there was work to get done and sculptures yet to make...
...Mirko is survived by his wife, Serena; his two brothers Afro and Dino, both Italian sculptors; and his mother, who lives in Udine, Italy, Mirko's birthplace. There will be a giant retrospective exhibit of Mirko's work in Rome this spring...