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LAST SUNDAY was the fifth anniversary of the death of Jan Palach, the Czech student who set himself afire to protest the Soviet occupation of his country. The press of subsequent events has blurred the memory of the Czechoslovak people's effort in 1968 to build a genuinely communist society, where freedom, equality, and brotherhood--ideals nations have acknowledged as desirable since 1789 but seldom pursued at any time--could become a reality. Sunday's anniversary is a reminder of that effort...
...Berlin Philharmonic, Rafael Kubelik conducting; Deutsche Grammophon; 9 LPs; $49.50). Those who like their Dvorak in plural doses, but with budgets to balance, may safely investigate the late George Szell's album of the last three and best symphonies (Columbia; 3 LPs; $ 11.98). Most other fans of the Czech nationalist will want to save their pennies for this set. Kubelik's surging way with the music catches its color and drama and seems to belie the uneven moments in some of the early symphonies. The Berlin Philharmonic, reduced so often to a static silkiness by its regular leader...
...quintets disband simply because they've run out of things to play." The Dorian's solution to the scanty quintet repertory has been virtually to create a new one. In its agile, luminous concert at Manhattan's Lincoln Center last week, the group played 19th Century Czech Composer Anton Reicha's forgotten E-Flat-Major Quintet, Henry Brant's transcription of Bach's Goldberg Variations and a new work that it commissioned from Pulitzer Prize Composer Jacob Druckman, "Delizie Contente Che L'Alme Beate"After Francesco Cavalli for Woodwind Quintet and Tape...
...around trying to get their equipment ready for observations, and the rest of us are excited by dramatic notions of what comets mean, especially during times of crisis." A former correspondent and editor for the Associated Press, Golden began writing science stories for TIME in the same way that Czech-born Astronomer Lubos Kohoutek discovered his celestial namesake - that is, unintentionally. After three years in TIME'S World section, Golden was asked to write a few stories for Science, soon took over the section. "I had been interested in science in high school and then...
...fiery visitor is called Kohoutek (after its discoverer, Czech Astronomer Luboš Kohoutek- pronounced Loo-bosh Ko-hoe-tek); it promises to rival and perhaps surpass in brightness Halley's comet, which last appeared in 1910 and will not be seen again until 1986. By the time Kohoutek emerges from its passage behind the sun early in January, its tail should be full grown, a glittering streamer extending across as much as a sixth of the evening sky. There is some chance that Kohoutek will not live up to all its billing - comets are notoriously unpredictable. Some split into...