Word: thawing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once, talk about a thaw in the cold war seemed realistic. Last week President Kennedy signed the test ban treaty, handed around 16 souvenir pens to Senators and Administration officials who were in the White House for the occasion. In response, Russia's Premier Khrushchev sent out messages of congratulation saying that the treaty opened the way to solution of "other ripe international issues...
...former vice-President Nixon claims we are "hurting the cause of freedom." Instead, the President's decision will strengthen recent attempts to case world tension. The Russians need grain and the United States has too much; common ground has been found and the opportunity for a further Cold War thaw should not be bypassed...
...release of the five Czech bishops was the first sign of a thaw between the church and a Stalinist regime that has been tougher on Catholicism longer than any other satellite government. But it had in short (5 ft. 2 in.), cheerful Josef Beran a tough opponent. Son of a schoolteacher, he served 15 years as a parish priest before becoming a teacher at Prague's Charles University in 1927. Beran was arrested by the Nazis in 1942, spent nearly three years at the notorious Dachau concentration camp. Pope Pius XII named him Archbishop of Prague...
Last week two Manhattan galleries opened a joint retrospective of Grosz's paintings and drawings, most of them from his estate. The Forum Gallery has the work he did in Germany from 1912; E. V. Thaw & Co. the work he did in the U.S. until his death...
Raging Compassion. But as the Forum-Thaw exhibition shows, George Grosz did not stop growing in 1932. His nonsatirical pictures of the U.S. have the freshness of discovery, for Grosz was in fact discovering a new world. And as the second world war drew closer, his old ferocity returned in the form of a raging compassion. The satire of A Man of Opinion, which induces a smile of scorn, was gone. His later paintings were to a large extent cries of anguish, not against a particular people but in behalf of all mankind. Ghostly "stickmen"-men that were no longer...