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...were some other failures he did not have to point up: the first suggestion of relaxed control had been followed by the East German riots and by a ten-day strike of slave laborers in the Vorkuta prison camps. Attempts at "honest art," e.g., Novelist Ehrenburg's The Thaw, merely confused Soviet writers accustomed to writing propaganda, including Ehrenburg himself, and honesty in art was incomprehensible to painters of the approved anecdote...
...Yard were for hundreds of feet an inch and a half deep in snow slush by ten o'clock in the morning. This was merely the snow which had been packed down by the passers when it fell, and which was sure to melt with the first thaw. As this was inevitable, provision might have been made ahead, so that when the snow began to soften on Wednesday morning, a dozen men set to work promptly could have made all but two or three of the paths clear and dry before eleven o'clock...
Ehrenburg's eulogy of Stalin after the dictator's death was more fulsome than any other. Yet, a few months later, he published a novel called The Thaw which Stalin would never have stood for. In The Thaw the Cynic, not the Idealist, is shown setting the tone of Soviet life, and for the first time in a Communist-printed work, explicit references are made to the melancholy effect on Soviet professional life of Stalin's wide-sweeping 1936-38 purge: characters bemoan the disappearance of families and friends for crimes they did not commit. Last week...
...third generation has lost the lust for power but kept the impulse toward God. Young Haguenier, Herbert's son, is a moonstruck knight who has chosen to serve a frigid beauty and waits in vain for her to thaw. It is hard to believe that any man, saint or fool, would observe the for mal demands of chivalry and obey each of his lady's whims (such as entering a joust in which his only shield is a mirror that must not be damaged). But Haguenier fulfills all his "trials" until he is driven to drink and finally...
...ceramics show in Long Beach, Calif., a bust of a young girl was exhibited by a sculptress whose name had a gaslitera ring to older art patrons. The artist: onetime Showgirl Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, 69, who was plunged into scream-headline scandal (and won the dubious title of "the girl with the bee-sting lips") in 1906, when her husband, millionaire Financier Harry K. Thaw, in a jealous fit of suspicion, shot and killed the nation's No. 1 architect, Stanford White, on the nightclub roof of Manhattan's old Madison Square Garden. But the sting was gone...