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...Proletarian" painting, the high-style school of U.S. art in the late '30s, is out of fashion today-but one of the A students of that school who still commands attention is dour Jack Levine, 37. Even abstractionists, today's darlings (whom he sneeringly refers to as "Space Cadets"), respect his work; and conservative as well as advance-guard museums collect it. This fall Levine's paintings will get more attention than ever before: a retrospective show opens this month at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, and will be seen later at the Colorado Springs...
...boss of the Cathedral Painting & Decorating Co. in Washington, D.C., landed what looked like a good deal-repainting the interior of the Soviet Embassy on 16th Street. Last week, out of temper and out of pocket, William Vlahos pulled his men off the job. The Washington representatives of the proletarian state had turned out to be lousy employers...
Willem Drees is the kind of Socialist the Reds denounce as a "Sewer Socialist." They are right in a way, for Drees would rather give his people sewers today than promise a proletarian heaven in 1984. Starting 39 years ago as a Socialist councilman in The Hague, Drees ascended the ladder to power, reform by reform-always carefully administered, of course, and with a thrifty eye on the budget. In World War II, Drees was imprisoned in Buchenwald for a year, then served as a member of the underground directorate which the Dutch, with stolid inspiration, called the Board...
Novelist John (Grapes of Wrath) Steinbeck, the Reds' favorite U.S. proletarian novelist even after the cold war began, is now an outspoken antiCommunist. Last week, in Italy on assignment from Collier's, Steinbeck heard a haunting voice from his past. In an open letter published in the Communist L'Unità (circ. 800,000), Italy's largest daily, a contributor named Ezio Taddei asked what Steinbeck thought of 1) the wickedness of American soldiers, 2) germ warfare in Korea, and 3) General Ridgway. Cried Taddei: "Let your voice be heard, John Steinbeck, and it will...
...Cultural regimentation has emaciated the ancient charm of Chinese life. Capitalist silks and floral robes have been replaced by the proletarian look: narrow blue pants and drab, high-necked tunics for men & women alike...