Word: thawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word first popularized during the 1907 trial of Harry K. Thaw for the murder of Architect Stanford White, meaning a temporary fit of insanity...
This considered opinion came from no Soviet pressagent, but from Alfred Barr Jr., director of collections of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, who took advantage of last spring's cultural thaw to go to Leningrad for the Hermitage's first big display of French painting. Beyond the show, Barr was permitted to see an astonishing cache of modern art stored away out of sight...
...decades art experts around the world have yearned to get through the Iron Curtain and see for themselves what is on the walls of Leningrad's famed, sprawling, be jeweled Hermitage Museum. Those who have been able to do so in the post-Stalin thaw have come away with confirmation of a long-held belief: the Hermitage is every bit as good as the Communists claim (see color pages for some of its rarely reproduced masterpieces). Sterling Callisen, the Metropolitan Museum's dean of education, who recently spent six goggle-eyed, footsore days roaming the Hermitage...
This week's short thaw brought thin-eared rabbits out of their holes in western Massachusetts, Peros Brugnoni '58, of Adams House and Moose Creek, Mass., announced last night...
...recent two-day thaw, most of the New England ski areas have reported poor to fair ski conditions. The rise in temperatures has turned most of the powder into ice and melted much of the base. At last report, conditions...