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...printed with official blessing in The Great Soviet Encyclopedia in 1956. But in recent years Tvar-dovsky's truth has begun to hurt. Russia's most popular poet has come under increasing attack for failing to show enough vigilance against "bourgeois ideology" in his magazine, Novy Mir (New World). Last week, after four of his top staff members were fired and replaced by men who can be relied upon to follow party dictates faithfully, Tvardovsky could no longer ignore official displeasure: he submitted his resignation as editor of Novy Mir...
...many, both in Russia and the West, the government crackdown on Novy Mir and Tvardovsky's resignation marked the end of an era. Since its founding in 1928, the magazine has published most of Russia's greatest contemporary writers. During the twelve years of Tvardovsky's editorship in the post-Stalin period, Novy Mir earned the reputation of being one of the best literary magazines published in any language anywhere. In addition to fiction and poetry, Tvardovsky managed to publish articles discussing, in a veiled way, Soviet antiSemitism, the wretchedness of village life, and other subjects hardly...
Next week the Museum of Modern Art unveils the most engrossing display of all: more than 175 examples from Nelson Rockefeller's unparalleled collection of 1,500 modern paintings and sculptures. It is almost impossible to assess such an exhibition. It begins with landmark works of Picasso, Miró, Matisse, Mondriaan, Moore, Maillol and just about every famous name from the first half of the 20th century. But Rockefeller's tastes have not stagnated or calcified. Particularly in sculpture, he has cheerfully moved on to buy many younger minimal artists. Among his newest purchases...
...solemn," Tange says, "but always as they should be: great fun to watch." Many others obviously agree. For their pavilion at the world's fair, Japan's gas companies have commissioned Shingu to create indoor fountains that will frame a huge new ceramic fresco by Joan Mir...
Sapone says that a few of his painter-customers "dress like bourgeois gentlemen" and concedes that he has trouble satisfying them. Joan Miró never did accept his suggestions for a suit, and Jacques Villon confided: "Sapone, I'm really too old for you to dress me." As Picasso told him: "Your suits are like my paintings. In the beginning people found them strange and extravagant. Now they admire them...