Word: czech
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pleased to welcome Czech president and playwright Vaclav Havel to Harvard. As a distinguished dissident and prominent player in the demise of Communism in Eastern Europe, the man who will speak at the University's 344th Commencement this June is highly deserving of the podium...
Throughout the 1960s, Havel wrote essays and plays that went unpublished in his native country but greatly shaped underground Czechoslovakia. Over the next decade, he was a leader of the Charter-77 movement in which he helped to produce a manifesto of Czech citizens' criticisms of the autocratic regime...
...Amor Prohibido (Forbidden Love), from her most recent album, has sold 400,000 copies in the U.S. and abroad. Most of her songs are a form of dance pop that combines Top 40 melodies with the rhythms of Colombian cumbia and traditional Texas conjunto-the border music influenced by Czech and German polkas, featuring accordions and bajo sexto guitars. Selena's lyrics, which were often written in English and then translated into Spanish, are straightforward and simple. At the time of her death, Selena was working on her first English- language record, one that many felt would help her cross...
Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian PhilologyMichael S. Flier, who teaches the linguistics ofthe Czech language, agreed...
Thomas, who teaches a unit on Havel'sliterature in Slavic 130b, said Havel might speakon any number of themes. Among those he mentionedare the historical and philosophical connectionsbetween the Untied States and the Czech Republicand how the 17th century Czech playwrightComenius, who was once offered the presidency ofHarvard, influenced western education...