Word: thaws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...previous revolutionary phenomena in Soviet cultural life can also be understood as political creations. In the aftermath of Stalin's death Ilya Ehrenburg published a novel, The Thaw, which lent its name to a whole period of increased freedom of expression. An otherwise drab story, The Thaw did have some kind words for freedom of expression in art, and was quite a bold venture compared to the material produced during Stalin's last years. The story touched a pent-up longing for freedom that threatened to break forth; the regime quickly clamped down, issued a succession of reprimands to Ehrenburg...
...Government called three experts: Edith Halpert of the Downtown Gallery, Daniel Johnson of the Willard Gallery and Eugene Thaw of E. V. Thaw & Co. The most generous evaluation that they placed on any of the baroness' paintings was $3,000. The baroness had her own expert: Alexander Kirkland, who runs a gallery in Palm Beach, Fla., where he had been exhibiting the baroness' work (without making a single sale). He placed the value of the triptych paintings at $28,000 each...
...could by announcing, "As cold as it is, it is not as severe as the great cold wave of 1899 . . ." The record cold so threatened the survival of southern Europe's migratory birds that the International Hunting Council asked European governments to ban all hunting until the spring thaw; in Italy and Germany, fish hatcheries reported widespread losses as ice cut off the oxygen supply of breeding fish...
...side of the Iron Curtain with his wife Galya, who has been translating Salinger into Russian. Spiffily decked out in the latest Russo-Italian style-bobtailed blue suit, pointy shoes, argyle socks and a seal-fur bow tie-the symbol of flaming Soviet youth and the "generation of the thaw," denied that "thaw" is the proper word. "I think the process is actually more like spring, sort of early spring with some cold winds and even occasional frost in between. But, like spring in nature, an inevitable process that needs time...
...Congregationalist alternate delegate-observer, Dr. George H. Williams. "No. He sat on a chair just like the ones we were sitting on. Pope John isn't setting himself up as someone above us. He is with us." The new atmosphere in Rome is, according to Anglican Pawley, "a thaw in 400 years of icy noncooperation and hostility...