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...Kishi has had the official title Acting Temporary Prime Minister throughout Ishibashi's illness. A business tycoon (steel, chemicals), he has been a shrewd backstage manipulator in Japanese politics since long before Pearl Harbor. In the early days of Japan's burgeoning Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, he was one of occupied Manchuria's top economic czars. As former Minister of Commerce and Industry in militaristic Premier Tojo's wartime Cabinet, he was clapped into jail by the allied occupation forces on suspicion of being a war criminal, later released without trial. "When I found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Third Man | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Taking note of the hubbub, Moscow's Literary Gazette also came out boldly in favor of nudes, preferably female. "Hypocrites and doctrinaires and art administrators have tried with enviable success to drive this undying motif, which inspired so many great realists, from the sphere of painting in Socialist realism as 'immoral.' Glazunov cannot but be praised for the boldness with which he broke this stupid taboo and brought back to art an earthy delight and poetry of feeling." As a followup, Moscow Radio's English broadcast quoted Critic Anatoly Chlemov deploring the view that "just about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Realism in the Raw | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...papers three years ago, before Moscow's destalinization campaign, as a protest against Communist stultification of Polish culture, boiled over into mass circulation magazines and such leading Warsaw dailies as Zycie Warszawy and Express Wieczorny, In the past year Polish papers have boldly challenged Russian policies in every sphere, from art to economics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bid for Freedom | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

...jewel case of highly personal and rare poetic experiences that have less outward shine than inner glow. Poet Raine's father was a spare-time nonconformist preacher in suburban London, but there is no doubt that a Buddhist would understand better than a Christian the implications of The Sphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet of Life & Death | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...sphere Turns in our hearts the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet of Life & Death | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

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