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...audience does nothing else, it can always enjoy this year's new visual delights within the 75-ft. proscenium. At stage rear and stage right are two modular kinetic sculptures by Czechoslovakia's Milan Dobes, 41, that provide a light-show backdrop of spinning whites, reds and blues for Mayuzumi's Concerto for Percussion. Even the players' chairs are part of a huge steel stage sculpture designed by Japan's Yasuhide Kobashi. Perhaps "chairs" is not the best word: the seats are actually wood slats fastened like steps up and down vertical tubes that...
...Stop bleeding over the suppression of (very limited) freedom in Czechoslovakia in 1968 [June 7]. The Czech army of 135,000 might well have fought a temporary delaying action before Prague. It is virtually certain that even a limited Czech armed resistance would have triggered off a general insurrection all over the captive area of Eastern Europe. Russian occupation and dominance would then have become logistically, psychologically and economically insupportable. The Czech (or Dubcek) failure to seize the historic moment has doomed all East Europe to continued tyranny. Those who will not fight for land and freedom abdicate their right...
...confidence and demanded that they work twice as hard to atone. Marxist Dramatist Bertolt Brecht offered a classic rejoinder. Instead of trying to rehabilitate such people, asked Brecht sarcastically, "wouldn't it be simpler for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?" It remained for Czechoslovakia, nearly two decades later, to take Brecht at his word...
Illogical Decision. On hand to receive this plaudit was Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, the man who in 1968 ordered troops from Russia and four other Warsaw Pact nations to invade Czechoslovakia. Confronted then by a popular, heavily publicized deviation from the socialist norm in Czechoslovakia, the Russians misjudged it. They let the Prague Spring reach full blossom, then felt compelled to crush it. Now, three years afterward, outside criticism of Soviet ham-handedness has largely faded. Thus last week's congress turned into a Brezhnev victory: he responded beamingly to Husák's "sincere thanks...
There was little to cheer about when the congress turned to another item of business: plotting a five-year economic plan. Husák denounced the principle of "market economy" toward which such other East bloc nations as Poland and Hungary are slowly but steadily moving. Czechoslovakia will instead adhere to "economic management by a single national plan." Thus the Czechoslovak leader committed his country to the same sort of stifling centralization that almost ruined its economy in pre-Dubč days and has plagued the Soviet Union's economy with ruinous inefficiencies. The illogic of such a decision...