Word: czech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is a sensible rule in human affairs: Never make a paranoid feel like a pariah; it renders him more dangerous. The rule may apply to the Soviets. On the other hand, they have often in the past worked in a point and counterpoint: they followed their Czech invasion with the beginning of the détente process, for example, and the Cuban missile crisis with the test ban treaty...
...tells a-story about the Czech army team that visited the U.S. in January, 1973. Although a game with Cornell, a perennial Division One powerhouse, was scheduled for Wednesday, Cleary let his team play the touring Czechs two days earlier, the only available date. The Crimson tied the squad, 4-4, in a rough, physical contest, and then--you gussed it--lost to Cornell two days later...
...tells a-story about the Czech army team that visited the U.S. in January, 1973. Although a game with Cornell, a perennial Division One powerhouse, was scheduled for Wednesday, Cleary let his team play the touring Czechs two days earlier, the only available date. The Crimson tied the squad, 4-4, in a rough, physical contest, and then--you gussed it--lost to Cornell two days later...
...follow the story, the newsmen bivouacked at the Kabul Inter-Continental Hotel, plying diplomats for information over ashak canapes (leek-stuffed pastry in a sour cream broth) and mutton, or drinking Czech pilsner beer in the hotel bar. Here one evening last week a sheepish employee announced that all American newsmen were to have their passports checked in the lobby by two Afghan policemen. Instead, the U.S. newsmen sallied forth with blazing floodlights and whirring film cameras. Terrified, the Afghan policemen fled. But the reprieve was short-lived. By 8 the next morning, armed Afghan police sealed off the hotel...
...professionalism. It is a collection of long profiles, originally published in The New Yorker, which reflect what the author calls "my abiding obsession with the skills that enable a man or woman to seize and hold the rapt attention of a multitude." His current choices: British Actor Ralph Richardson; Czech-born British Playwright Tom Stoppard; Johnny Carson, board chairman of the American talk show; Comedian and Movie Producer Mel Brooks; and Louise Brooks (no relation), film beauty and sex symbol of the 1920s...