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...Letter Writer Dooskin [Aug. 2] should know that there was at least one demonstrator for the Czech cause. An American by naturalization but a Czechoslovak by birth, I ran around to my liberal friends and tried to work up a little low-keyed demonstration. They responded yawningly, "Oh yes, I did hear something about something going on . . . Uh, where is it now?" So, I took myself on a lonely little freedom march up Fifth Avenue. Needless to say, nobody even noticed me. Why wasn't there more response? Because protesters are programmed to protest "liberal, new-left, pro-revolutionary...
Only one perspective on the current Czech crisis is popular in the United States. According to this view, Czechoslovakia, a stubbornly courageous nation determined to escape communism, waits tensely in the shadow of annihilation cast by her oppressor of the last 20 years, Russia. Violence might erupt any moment...
Hanus Papousek, a Czech, sees things differently, just as he sees communism differently, and American democracy...
Rare Moment. At week's end the Czech poet Miroslav Holub compared the Soviet attitude to that of the medieval Popes who denied that the earth moves around the sun. "This country is in the position of Giordano Bruno,"* wrote Holub in the journal Literárni Listy. "We are supposed to deny everything that we know to be true. We are to admit that the sun is revolving, and that we are facing a counter-revolution." Czechoslovakia is obviously unwilling to do so. "Rarely are there moments," concluded Holub, "when a people is as certain...
This latest arrival from the Czech cinematic surge is both sad and slapstick in an old-fashioned way. It is a Chaplinesque morality play about simple innocence in the rapacious world, aptly matched with direction and photography that point up the pastiche without collapsing into camp...