Word: thawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the slobbering eulogies around Stalin's bier, there was a great silence in the Union of Soviet Writers. Then, almost two years later, under the weight of Ilya Ehrenburg's The Thaw, the ice broke. But no Writers' Union congress could revive the dead, nor could so many veteran sycophants make sense of their new function. Sensing change, Fadeyev handed down a new line, appealed for less "socialist realism." At the sensational 20th Party Congress last February, Novelist Mikhail Sholokhov (whose way of protesting the Stalinist regime had been to produce almost no creative work since...
...this "The Girl Most Likely to Thaw Out Alaska," the notorious nude in the most popular photograph ever taken? The story of Actress Monroe's life is not the maudlin tale that Hollywood loves to tell about how a star is born. It more resembles the plot of a social novel by Charles Dickens. "This girl," says one of Marilyn's friends...
...show itself willing to initiate significant measures to release the cramp in East-West commerce. The latest "relaxation" is nothing but a scrap thrown to clamoring critics in an effort to pacify them. Much more will have to be done before the Administration can pose as anxious to thaw frozen channels of trade...
...first signs of a thaw in Russia's artistic climate even brought one timid debut out into the open. An unpublicized show by younger artists in a small Moscow gallery included canvases copying the strong, clear colors of Matisse and even imitations of Braque's cubist period. Clear inspiration for the new art effort was an exhibition-one of the most exciting seen in Moscow in decades-of French painting up to 1917, the year before the Soviets confiscated major private collections. Art students queued for hours in the subfreezing weather before Moscow's Pushkin Museum, came...
Even the spring social openers were disrupted. In Lyman Laboratory students bemoaned the cancellation of the Monday afternoon tea-and-cake session with the Physics staff. At the Lampoon offices the annual robin-redbreast hunt was postponed until the thaw...