Word: thawing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since Nikita Khrushchev put a chill on the "thaw" in Russian letters last year, Soviet artists and writers have slowly, gradually been working back toward the level of relatively free ex pression that reached its high point with Poet Evgeny Evtushenko's mass readings in Mayakovsky Square. Recently, however, intellectuals have once again felt the cold wind of literary conservatism. This time it blew not on a politically outspoken, widely published writer, but rather on one of Russia's many literary "abstainers" - ostensible amateurs whose works are circulated by hand, thus precluding their being drafted into the government...
...special disappointment of Blues for Mr. Charlie is that Baldwin has a fine intelligence capable of far subtler reflections on the color question and the universal fate of being human. The thaw in race relations permits Negroes to say how much they hate whites. The pity of it is that in the talky span of almost three hours, Baldwin says so little else worth saying...
JACQUES VILLON - Thaw, 50 East 78th. Fifteen paintings trace a life-long love affair with art, from a youthful Portrait of the Artist, who had not yet courted cubism, to The Environs of Rouen, when he had wedded it to his own luminous impressionism. Through April...
Alaskans always look forward to the big spring breakup, the time of the thaw that signals the end to hibernation and the beginning of the growing and fishing season. Along a corrugated street in downtown Anchorage last week a sign was posted on a store front: CLOSED DUE TO EARLY BREAKUP...
JACQUES VILLON-Thaw, 50 East 78th. Death put an end last year to the more than 60 years in art that Villon called "a long love affair." It was a happy one that mellowed and matured with the man, and it is tellingly revealed by these 15 oil paintings. The earliest is a 1909 Portrait of the Artist; he is young, bearded, not yet taken with cubism. The latest is The Environs of Rouen, painted in 1960, luminous proof of how apt was his self-summation as a "cubist impressionist." Through April...