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...Official Thaw. It is a moment of some importance, for it signals an official thaw in Soviet attitudes to the cultural avant-garde of the past. Before Lenin died and the hand of Stalin squashed experimental art like a bug, the link between "revolutionary" art and revolutionary politics in Russia was closer than it has ever been in the West. The idealist abstract order of works like Lissitzky's Proun, 1919, was deeply connected to social visions of Utopia: when Tallin designed his extraordinary spiral tower as a monument of the revolulion, there was no doubt in his mind...
...worry. I know it's a rough time for all of us. Hopefully the following list of suggestons that I've compiled will help us all pass the time and get through this excruciating thaw and onward to the inane, captivating excitement of spring sports...
...smacks of some great research fun, although I appreciate its serious commentary on problems of excess. Nonetheless, we have needed some freedom from old Victorian strictures. I submit that Morrow might have paid some tribute to the flower children of the late '60s as partially responsible for the thaw...
...Clifford mission is the latest step in a U.S.-sponsored drive for a settlement. First signs of a thaw between the island's heavily armed and mutually suspicious communities occurred four weeks ago, when Archbishop Makarios and Turkish Cypriot Leader Rauf Denkta§ held an unexpectedly cordial meeting, their first in 13 years. With Washington's support, U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim brought the two leaders together for a second time at a dinner meeting held in the U.N.-patrolled no man's land dividing the island...
...that a thaw is in sight, economists can begin to measure the impact of the unforeseen cold on the economic recovery. The verdict of TIME'S Board of Economists: a sharp, but strictly temporary, setback...