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...this time of year heralds the thaw of winter snow and ice," observed French Deputy Marie François-Benard, leader of a seven-member parliamentary delegation that arrived in Red China last week. "I think this time the Peking sunshine also heralds the thawing of relations between our two countries." Word that President Charles de Gaulle would soon recognize Communist China, a move prompted by the faint hope of reviving French influence in the Far East, indeed had broken the ice. But while a thaw set in between Paris and Peking, new and severe chills developed between France...
...time, in the "giant hothouse" of the Mediterranean coast, Maria's feelings seem about to thaw. Contempt for the old man gives way to a reluctant compassion; a friendship with four vacationing children restores for a while the "miraculous gift of liveliness." But feeling exacts a price: "Suffering, which had been impatiently biding its time, hurled itself upon me." As memories come flooding back, Maria at first tries to reject them and then flees...
...NEVER MAKE MISTAKES," by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch is the best of the new Russian novelists who have won recognition in the post-Stalin "thaw." These are two short novels about fringe members of Soviet society: the man who still believes in Das Kapital and the poor old peasant woman who has endured both czars and commissars...
...NEVER MAKE MISTAKES," by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch is the best of the new Russian novelists who have won recognition in the post-Stalin "thaw." These are two short novels about fringe members of Soviet society: the man who still believes in Das Kapital and the poor old peasant woman who has endured both czars and commissars...
Uneven Spate. This is light treatment, even in the current cultural "thaw" on which Nikita Khrushchev seems to blow now hot, now cold. Other writers have fared much worse-or feared to try publishing at all. The Trial Begins, a brilliant satiric fantasy that treats life among party members as a grotesque nightmare of greed and hypocrisy, had to be smuggled out of Russia and printed under the assumed name of Abram Tertz. No one yet knows who the real author is. Soviet Writer Valery Tarsis, in The Bluebottle (Knopf), cavalierly compared the attitude of officials liquidating citizens to that...