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When Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opened in Prague recently, its title was changed to Who's Afraid of Franz Kafka? The switch was significant. Not only did it mark Czech officialdom's resurrection of Kafka from the Communist limbo of "degenerate individualism," but it also reflected the intellectual ferment behind the Iron Curtain that made Kafka's redemption possible...
...Hungarian Philosopher Gyorgy Lukacs, 78, who complained that "as a result of the Stalinist era, we have missed 50 years of the development of capitalism," called for the adoption of "everything new and everything scientifically progressive that's originated in the West since Lenin's death." The Czech party organ immediately criticized all the major literary magazines for "serious gaps, political errors, and ideological confusion," scored them for "propagating revisionist tendencies...
Acting as a sort of Art Buchwald of the Communist world, Czech Humorist M. Honzik recently imagined himself standing outside a Prague grocery. "What are they selling?" asked a passerby. "Onions," replied Honzik. A queue grew at once, and in an hour cleaned the store out of onions. Realizing that he was "on to the greatest discovery of the century, " Honzik hired a crew of old-age pensioners and started a "Rent-a-Queue" business. Wherever the Rent-a-Queue gathered, business immediately soared. Honzik's biggest victory was for "Beastexport," a store that had been stuck with...
...many Hungarians flocked to Czechoslovakia to buy lingerie and razor blades, which were almost unattainable in Hungary, that the Czech government was forced to slap spending restrictions on the Hungarians to prevent a shortage of the same items in Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakian retailers last year had to return nearly $70 million worth of goods that their customers did not need and would not buy, while neighboring Poland overproduced 9,000 washing machines even though retailers clamored for scarce enamel pots. Queues even form for vegetables in rich Bulgarian farming country because bureaucrats have not received orders to disburse their produce...
...performer as well. He is 33, a short, stocky man with a bull neck, a round head, and a freshly scrubbed demeanor. He has a Ph.D. in music, another in theater, and another in art. Sometimes foreigners confuse his Black Theater with Lanterna Magica, another Czech theatrical group, which dazzled visitors to the 1958 Brussels World's Fair with a theatrical hybrid of song, speech, and film bits projected onto odd-shaped screens. But Srnec is swiftly clearing up the confusion the world over. The Black Thea ter was a hit at the 1962 Edinburgh Festival, recently finished...