Word: czechoslovakia
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After the Russian Revolution, Jakobson moved to Czechoslovakia. There in collabration-with a Czech scholar, he founded a new discipline, phenology, which marked a turning point in the modern science of Ilnguistics...
...Communist bloc, the right to work has long been indivisible from the obligation to do so. The Soviet Union, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria even have laws on the books making it a crime to remain without a job. Draft versions of similar laws against "social parasitism" have been circulating in Poland's Sejm, or parliament, for more than a decade, but none has ever made it out of committee. The Roman Catholic Church has opposed the idea for fear it would be abused for political, anti-religious or personal purposes. The Academy of Sciences has argued that forcing...
...youth, reflecting on how he began to lose hope." He muses: "My disappointment in my own country has been so bitter. Our generation of writers hoped that after de-Stalinization started in 1956, we might restore Russian literature to its mother, European culture. But since the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, there has been no chance of change. Now real writers don't even bother to submit their work to Soviet publishers...
...original version was set in Poland, so Streisand moved her production to Czechoslovakia. There, other film makers might be concerned about language barriers and performances. But as far as Barbra's concerned, "The biggest challenge was to get by without fresh vegetables...
...When I was two years old, I already had little biceps. As a kid in Czechoslovakia, I felt out of place. But the attitude toward women's bodies has changed, and I grew into my body. Now I wouldn't change it for anything...