Word: czech
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...author of this Candide-like scrap of philosophizing is one Joseph Schweik, private first class in the Czech army during World War I. Cheerful Sad-Sack Schweik first turned up back in the 1920s in Czech Novelist Jaroslav Hasek's antimilitary satire, The Good Soldier Schweik. Last week he popped up on the stage of Manhattan's City Center in the premiere of the late Robert Kurka's operatic version and won a warm welcome from audiences in the New York City Opera's spring season of contemporary American works...
Jakobson vigorously denied Czech allegations that he has been "misusing the scientific authority of Harvard University," by sending "inciting publications which have nothing in common with science...
Jakobson commented that the charges, which were reported by the Czech news agency, CTK, were "completely invented and utterly fantastic." "I can't imagine what this is all about," he added...
...Several Czech newspapers carried articles Saturday accusing Roman Jakobson, Samuel Hazard Cross Professor of Semitic Languages and Literatures, of trying to incite scientists in Czechoslovakia...
Noting that he had sent "no more than two or three papers" to Czech scholars in the past year, Jakobson stated that the accusations had come as a "complete surprise." In his last visit to Czechoslovakia, he reported, he had been well received, and a lecture which he gave at Prague University had been "warmly reviewed...