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None of the better writers seems to have written even a line in praise of the triumphs of socialism. The popular Bohumil Hrabil's erotic stories about barflies, criminals and layabouts (The Pearls and' The Palaver ers) are filled with surrealism and black humor. Novelist Vačulik writes about languid Czechs such as the farmers in The Axe, who are brutally herded into Communist collectives. Novelist Ladislav Mñačko, who went to Israel in protest against Novotný's repression last fall, writes in Delayed Reports about tortures and rigged trials that...
...Died. Bohumil Lausman, 55, chairman of Czechoslovakia's Social Democratic Party before the Communist coup of 1948, man of many-phased, sincere but confused cold-war loyalties; in Prague. In 1946 Lausman liked the Russians; in 1947 he denounced them, but became Deputy Premier of Czechoslovakia when the Reds assumed control the next year. In 1950 he fled to the West, soon turned up in Yugoslavia, disappeared (perhaps by kidnaping) in 1953 from a pension in Austria, reappeared in Prague with a "confession" of the "spiritual suffering" he had undergone in Western Europe...
...newspapers were in full and angry cry. Said the critic of Prace: "Even the première audience was often in doubt, and how much more in doubt will be our working people who go to the theater to enjoy themselves and be instructed." Nonsense, replied Director Bohumil Hrdlicka. He had simply been trying to infuse a little life and "socialist realism" into Mozart. For two more nights Hrdlicka and Conductor Jaroslav Kronbholc braved the rising storm. Then came the call from the Ministry of Culture, and Mozart departed from the boards of his beloved city...
...Darkest America, Rotten to the Core, Stop That Leak!). But S.U.I. survived. Historian Benjamin Shambaugh helped make the entire state history-conscious; Paleontologist Samuel Calvin became the ranking U.S. authority on the Pleistocene age of North America; bearded Thomas H. Macbride became the "Father of Iowa Conservation"; and Geologist Bohumil Shimek won international fame for his theory on the origin of loess (loam) fossils...
Last week, four years after he chose the West and fled there to refuge, Radio Prague was proudly reporting that Bohumil Lausman had changed his mind and come home to Red Czechoslovakia. To all wavering Czechs the radio announcer trumpeted Lausman's words: "Four years of emigration spent in Western Europe were for me spiritual suffering and at the same time a political revelation. I declare publicly that most of the emigres . . . are in foreign service, and that in return for money spent by the Americans . . . they are lending themselves ... to espionage, terrorism, diversionism and slander of the Soviet...