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...date their conversions back to the days of early cubism and Russian constructivism. Even six years of Nazi occupation failed to eradicate it; a 1945 victory exhibition in Cracow abounded in fantastic expressionist and nonobjective canvases. Though this first frantic flowering was followed by a wintery decade of tough Stalinist socialist realism, Polish painters worked in secret. "For the mass of the people, the stumbling block between themselves and the regime was their Catholicism," a recent U.S. visitor noted. "For the intellectual, it was abstract...
After a concert at U.C.L.A.'s first International Music Festival, frail, limping Igor Stravinsky, 78, was greeted by the Soviet delegation. Although one of the visitors had been a Stalinist cultural commissar when Stravinsky was blasted as a "decadent bourgeois," the meeting became a chattering, congenial gabfest, and the famed composer was invited to make his first visit to his native land since he left in 1914. Stravinsky tentatively accepted, but as his wife explained, "He is worried that he will become too emo tional when he returns to Russia...
...curious encounter served as reminder that, whatever the strains in the Western camp, stresses are always at work in the Communist hierarchy. Last week at Vienna, the stresses were present in Khrushchev's mind. Molotov, a hard-line Stalinist, had lost. But for Khrushchev there was the longstanding and probably more formidable threat from another Stalinist, Red China's Mao Tse-tung, who has challenged Khrushchev's dogma of "peaceful coexistence." Some observers credit Mao with forcing Khrushchev into more belligerence than he considered wise in Cuba and Laos. In backward Outer Mongolia, the Russians and Chinese...
...Needle. There were additional worries for Khrushchev in Albania, whose tough, Stalinist dictator, Enver Hoxha, loves to needle him. Last week, after a show trial that featured abject confessions in old Stalinist tradition, Hoxha, who openly prefers Mao to Khrushchev' shot four Communist Party officials for "spying." The trial got not a word in the Russian press. Reason: though the spies were accused of working for "Greek monarchist-fascists, Yugoslav revisionists and American imperialists," they were actually Khrushchev sympathizers...
...Moscow, Corbu built a ten-story glass-walled office building that survived two decaded of Stalinist criticism as anti-esthetic to become, now, much admired. Then Le Corbusier flew to Brazil (in the old Graf Zeppelin), to advise a team that included Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa on the designing of Rio's 1936 Ministry of Education, a slab on pilotis with a new feature: a honeycomb of sun-shading breeze-admitting vanes at the windows, called brises-soleīl. That single example spread to give all the major cities of Latin America, notably Brasilia, their present look...