Word: czechoslovakians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...race, like heart transplants and war, is good for the encyclopedia business, and these people were in the encyclopedia business. A big selling point of the Collier's Encycpedia these folks sold is that the 24 volume set includes complete schematic diagrams of the moon flight (not to mention Czechoslovakian street fighting photos). So the Colliermen liked the moonshot, the way businessmen were once rumored to like the War, and the Colliermen went out to sell that day with especial eagerness...
Defense Without War, led by Gene Sharp, Research Fellow at the Center. The seminar will discuss "potentialities of prepared nonviolent mass civilian resistance to deter and defeat internal dictatorship, and military coups." Focusing on specific cases-from the Kapp Putsch of 1920 to last year's Czechoslovakian invasion-the seminar will explore "means of preparation and training that could make nonviolent resistance more effective as eventual replacement for military defense...
CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 1:30-2:30 p.m.). A young boy adopts a lost dog and becomes entangled in a web of falsehoods in the Czechoslovakian film, Doggie and Three...
...short, Oratorio for Prague, also deserves notice. It is a compositon which, like a fine piece of music, flows in and out while it covers its subject--the nature of the Czechoslovakian character at the approach of the August invasion. The film is narrated with the simplicity of a Hemingway story, everything cut down to the essential facts. But the effect is tremendous because the camera work is excellent and the background music is good, while the mixing of the three elements--narration, film, and music--is perfect...
...short, along with Forman's longer feature, presents a complete set that, in a very delicate way, expresses something of the temper of the Czechoslovakian people...