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...heretics for maintaining that salvation can be obtained through knowledge alone, many Christian faiths have found the accusation of heresy a handy tool to keep dissidents in line or toss them out. For supposedly challenging church doctrine, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in 1431; so were Czech Reform Leader John Hus in 1415 and the impassioned Dominican Savonarola in 1498 (he was hanged first for good measure). In recent history, however, punishments for heresy have grown less brutal, and the charge has only rarely been invoked. Doctrinal disputes are increasingly resolved by debate within a church...
...declared sex illegal in his already strait-laced country. His regime has put Argentina's few tame girly magazines out of business, ordered nightclubs to keep their lights bright at all times and outlawed kissing in public parks. It has banned such widely acclaimed films as the Czech-made Loves of a Blonde and Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up, based on a short story by Argentina's Julio Cortazar; it recently ordered a popular local television show discontinued because it showed too much of a bosomy blonde film star named Libertad Leblanc. One evening this month police...
...prove a point in the most graph ic way, Czech-born Engineer...
Furor & Fantasy. The ten slender, melancholy men and women who tower above display drums in the British pavilion draw awed reactions such as "magnificent." The gay ceramic figures created by Pravoslav and Jindriska Rada for the roof garden of the Czech pavilion are favored companions for souvenir snapshots. The liveliest furor has been stirred up by the "Fantasy Garden" atop the French pavilion, which features Niki de Saint-Phalle's bouncy papier-machelike manikins engaged in combat with the machines of Jean Tinguely. "Fiendish!" sniff elderly English matrons. "Great, wild, erotic!" says a Montreal college-student Expo guide...
None of this amounts to open revolt. Czech writers, whatever their new independence, are powerless to save from an almost certain prison sentence their colleague Jan Beneš, who was on trial last week in Prague for smuggling his manuscripts abroad. Yet the rising tide of protest seems to be achieving a degree of success. There is speculation that Soviet censors may soon release for publication Solzhenitsyn's The Cancer Ward, a novel about Stalin's secret police that has been smothered in recent years for ideological reasons. Some prominent Russian writers are even predicting that the regime...