Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plainly, the regime's conservative rulers were ready for the step that they had delayed for fear of popular reaction - a wholesale purge. When the 180 members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party assembled last week in the ornate baroque Spanish Hall overlooking Prague, the whole country knew that their first order of business was to pronounce sentence against the men who had sought to give Czechoslovak Communism a human face. The only question was how se vere the sentences would...
...first signs were anything but optimistic. At week's end Premier Oldfich Cernik's entire 29-man Cabinet was dissolved. Cernik, one of the first of Dubćek's allies to make amends with pro-Moscow conservatives after the invasion, was ordered by the Central Committee to form a new government. Its membership, announced this week, reflected the hardliners' virtually total control. The purge extended to the local political level; the Prague city party committee was stripped of every remaining Dubćek loyalist. Five more liberals "resigned" from the Czech National Council...
...committee, established at the request of the Board of Overseers, will recommend ways to improve Harvard's central governing processes...
...central problem for us to consider is the degree to which the University should supervise the scholarly work of the Faculty." Harvey Brooks. Dean of Engineering and Applied Physics. and chairman of the subcommittee, said yesterday at a press conference...
...from a Dostoevski novella about the suicide of a young bride, Une Femme Douce finds Bresson dealing once again with the corruption of innocence, a theme that has dominated his work from Diary of a Country Priest to last year's Mouchette. For the first time, however, his central character is something more than a passive, symbolic victim. Her suicide is portrayed as a positive act of defiance, not desperation. Bresson's customary stylistic austerity seems softened by his first use of color film, but what François Truffaut called his "theoretical, mathematical, musical and above...