Word: czechoslovaks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Josef Smrkovsky, 62, liberal chairman of the Czechoslovak National Assembly during the ill-fated "Prague spring" of 1968; of cancer; in Prague. Smrkovsky entered government service following World War II. He was imprisoned from 1951 to 1955 on charges of "activities against the state," but was exonerated in 1963 and elected president of the National Assembly five years later. Smrkovsky, one of Liberal Czech leader Alexander Dubcek's key aides, publicly called for such reforms as freedom of speech, religion and press; after the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968, he fell into disfavor with party hard-liners...
LAST SUNDAY was the fifth anniversary of the death of Jan Palach, the Czech student who set himself afire to protest the Soviet occupation of his country. The press of subsequent events has blurred the memory of the Czechoslovak people's effort in 1968 to build a genuinely communist society, where freedom, equality, and brotherhood--ideals nations have acknowledged as desirable since 1789 but seldom pursued at any time--could become a reality. Sunday's anniversary is a reminder of that effort...
...during a search for the remnants of Biela's comet that Luboš Kohoutek made his great discovery. Interested in the minor bodies of the solar system since boyhood meteor-and comet-hunting expeditions in the Czechoslovak mountains, he had in the fall of 1971 located a cluster of about 50 small asteroids in an orbit roughly comparable to that of Biela's comet. Last February, using Hamburg Observatory's 32-in. Schmidt telescope, he tried to "recapture" the asteroids, which he feels may be the remaining chunks of the lost comet. To Kohoutek's surprise...
Milos Forman, who made Fireman's Ball, is often used as an example of a Czechoslovak director being influenced by the French New Wave, but it is likely that he was more influenced by the rich body of literature produced in Czechoslovakia during the early...
This festival is the outstanding opportunity of the past few year for people around Harvard to become acquainted with Czechoslovak film, to speak with the directors about their films and, it is to be hoped,to discuss the impact of the post-1968 political climate on the arts and on artists in Czechoslovakia...