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Suicide for political reasons is hardly a novel idea in Czechoslovakia. At least a score of Stalinist Party Boss Antonin Novotný's lieutenants took their own lives, usually by hanging, in the early days of Alexander Dubček's regime. Shortly after the Stalinist takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1948, the Communists announced that Wartime Leader Jan Masaryk, son of Tomás, had jumped out of a window-a claim that seemed credible to many Czechoslovaks despite evidence that he was pushed. Many of Palach's mourners compared him to Jan Hus, the 15th century...
...Slovak, presented the scheme a year ago when he ousted from power President and Party Boss Antonin Novotny, a Czech. Historically, the more bucolic Slovaks have felt oppressed by the urbanized and sophisticated Czechs, who outnumber them by nearly 3 to 1. Hoping to enhance his support at home, Dubček proposed self-rule as a means of alleviating the old Slovak grievances. At first, the Soviets, who earlier had threatened to break off Slovakia and incorporate it into the Soviet Union, opposed the federal system. They changed their minds when they realized that the reorganization would provide...
Prominent among the realists is Lubomir Strougal, 44, a longtime associate and former Interior Minister of Stalinist Party Boss Antonin Novotny...
...Soviet support, staged in a downtown Prague meeting hall by the Czechoslovak-Soviet Friendship Society. It drew some 3,000 middle-aged and elderly citizens, the rank and file of a hard-line group sometimes called the Novotný Orphans, in honor of Stalinist ex-Party Boss Antonin Novotný. With some 20 Soviet officers seated on stage, the crowd applauded wildly as Novotný's former foreign minister, Vaclav David, called for "an open fight against antisocialist forces." Meanwhile, outside the hall, some 500 younger Czechoslovaks waited. As the crowd walked out of the door, it was greeted...
...longingly that "we have lost all sense of ritual and ceremony-whether it be connected with Christmas, birthdays or funerals-but the words remain with us and old impulses stir in the marrow." Brook's deepest illumination about a holy theater comes from the French actor and critic Antonin Artaud, who conceived of the theater of cruelty as searingly holy, "working like the plague, by intoxication, by infection, by analogy, by magic; a theater in which the play, the event itself, stands in place of a text...