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...Slovak, presented the scheme a year ago when he ousted from power President and Party Boss Antonin Novotny, a Czech. Historically, the more bucolic Slovaks have felt oppressed by the urbanized and sophisticated Czechs, who outnumber them by nearly 3 to 1. Hoping to enhance his support at home, Dubček proposed self-rule as a means of alleviating the old Slovak grievances. At first, the Soviets, who earlier had threatened to break off Slovakia and incorporate it into the Soviet Union, opposed the federal system. They changed their minds when they realized that the reorganization would provide...
...Czechoslovaks loyal to Dubcek's liberal team, the composition of the delegation to Kiev was itself a source of discouragement. Gustav Husak and Lubomir Strougal, party chiefs for the nation's Slovak and Czech peoples, are both "realists" who have enjoyed more prominence under the Russians than they did under an independent Dubcek, and Premier Oldfich Cernik who quickly became adept at compromising with Moscow. There were rumors that Dubcek may soon be given a purely honorific job. That could happen after the federal-socialist state comes into being on Jan. 1, with separate Czech and Slovak governments...
Firemen's Ball and Oratorio for Prague--Two first rate, if lightweight, Czech films which run amuck. In Milos (Loves of a Blonde) Forman's comedy, the dramatic action edges toward the consequential and finally becomes downright grisly, with no let-up in the constant low-key joking. In Jan Nemec's documentary, reality gets out of hand as the appearance of Russian tanks drastically alter what had been intended as a cheerful film about the liberalized Dubcek regime. At the EXETER, Exeter St. between Commonwealth & Newbury...
...limit speaking time to "let 80 flowers bloom." They bloomed in a vast tangle. On the first day of the discussion--which proved the most productive in many ways--the conversation bounced from the problems of blacks in America, to the problems of big bureaucracy and corporate capitalism. A Czech economist, Eugene Loebl, interjected the problems of youth as a sub-theme, but conversation turned away after an insistent Italian suggested that the American crisis could not really be separated from the problems of the world at large, and particularly the underdeveloped countries. Kaysen explained politely to him that...
Through one of the disquieting coincidences which threaten to reduce criticism to an exact science, 1883 was the natal year of a pair of Czech novelists whose lookouts on the problem of monolithic authority and what to do about it are presently very much in point. In a country which has earned its reputation as the common stamping ground of optimistic power, Franz Kafka and Jaroslav Hasek came to know the texture and stink of vast administratives schemes so vicious, irrational, and irremediably tacky that they generate comedy and tragedy, like industrial waste, in awe-some volume, beyond...