Word: czeched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite its recent shift towards democracy, Czechoslovakia still faces serious obstacles to reform, a leading Czech legal scholar warned a gathering of students, professors and community leaders yesterday...
Cepl questioned the Czech leadership's commitment to meeting basic human needs. "I think the most important thing is feeding the people and changing the economy... but I am in the minority on that," he said...
...hour-long question and answer session, the Czech scholar expressed support for a movement by the country's ethnic Slovaks to split from Czechoslovakia...
...decidedly does not. Immortality is every bit as gripping and exhilarating as The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1980) and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), the two novels that made Kundera, an exiled Czech who has lived in Paris since 1975, famous in the West. Like its predecessors, Immortality swings easily, almost imperceptibly, from narrative to rumination and back again, collapsing the distinction between action and concepts. Kundera's characters must cope with their emotions and with the stresses of daily life in contemporary Paris; but they also embody, sometimes consciously and sometimes by example, a number of nagging...
...Post, who says, "I like his background. His kind of rags-to-riches story happens in America a lot, but not in England." Born Jan Lodvik Hoch of Jewish peasant parents in Czechoslovakia, the future Maxwell left school after just three years. At 15 he joined the Czech underground. The Nazis shot his father and sent his mother to her death in a concentration camp. Wounded and captured in France, he escaped to Britain and joined its army at 16. After serving in postwar Berlin as a press officer (he speaks at least eight languages fluently), Maxwell acquired a small...