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...Died. Antonin Novotny, 70, former President and Communist Party boss of Czechoslovakia; of a heart attack; in Prague. Named secretary of the Central Committee in 1951, Novotny helped engineer show trials of high-ranking party leaders, which resulted in the execution of, among others, his old friend, Party Boss Rudolf Slansky. Succeeding to power in 1953, he ruled with an iron hand, slavishly aping Moscow policy. Ousted in the "Prague spring" of 1968, Novotny spent his last years cut off from control; his death was marked by a five-line communique from the Central Committee...
...Cheshire Cat-all the fond friends of generations of children. But in this Alice, the prattling antic chums from childhood cast shadows that are dark, deep and unsettling. The shadows invade the characters and dye them in the colors of Freud, and Jung, and Kafka, and Dali, and Antonin Artaud, who conceived the Theater of Cruelty. Innocence has been lost, assuredly, but a revelation has been gained as the audience is taken on a journey through the murky, quirky labyrinth of the human psyche. Alice is an exemplary instance of how a classic can be made...
After he engineered the ouster of longtime President and Party Boss Antonin Novotny in early 1968, Dubček launched a series of reforms that evoked the cheers not only of Czechoslovaks but of people throughout the rest of the East Bloc as well. Among other things, he ended press censorship, encouraged artistic freedom in films and literature, drew up plans to make the National Assembly a truly representative body, and allowed criticism within the party. He also started to liberalize the country's calcified economy. "Since the party cannot change the people," Dubček declared, "it must...
...leader of the ultraconservatives. Apparently, Strougal not only retained his No. 2 post in the party hierarchy but also replaced the wily Oldfich Cernik as Premier. Cernik's undisputed managerial skills and political agility had enabled him to serve as Deputy Premier in the Stalinist regime of Antonin Novotný and as Premier under...
...Antonin Artaud...