Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brought along a briefcase full of surprises. For his first concert, he wrenched the orchestra and three soloists through a jangling, abrasive concerto for harp, harpsichord, piano and strings by Swiss Composer Frank Martin. Last week, he pulled out another new work: the Symphony No. 5 of Czech Composer Bohuslav Martinu. Another surprise: a seldom-heard work by 91-year-old U.S. Expatriate Templeton Strong, who left for Switzerland some 50 years ago in a rage because he couldn't get his music performed at home...
...Czech Communists promptly began wrapping their promised bread with Communist threats. Communist Party Secretary Richard Slansky announced: "If anyone now dares to criticize the Soviet Union it will be a crime against the state." Communist Minister of Information Vaclav Kopecky more ominously added: "From now on anti-Communism is actually high treason." Retorted the National Socialist Svobodny Zitrek: "What are the Communists threatened by? Nothing but democracy...
...disappointing study of New York liberal intellectuals. Saul Bellow's The Victim, for the most part a well-controlled blend of realism and parable, was the year's most intelligent study of the Jew in U.S. society. Bellow's method recalled-without aping-that of the Czech genius, Franz Kafka...
...Czech foreign policy is Germany. I can't expect anybody in America to realize the intense batred these people have for the Germans. It's a mania. The three million Germans who were in CRS before the war and during the occupation were moved bodily back to Germany. Before the war the Germans here enjoyed national privileges. They had their own schools and churches and spoke their own language, (Kafta was one of them, but also a Jew.) The hatred is so great that German signs at international railroad cars have been painted over, German (which all the Czechs, speak...
Behind it all sits the atom bomb, something everyone knows about and about which nobody says anything. I was riding through the Czech countryside one evening and in the distance I saw a great lighted building. I asked the Czech I was with what it was. "It's a factory," he said. Then I asked him what it produced. "Oh . . . I don't know," he said, and then, "Yes, yes, well they make . . . how do you say . . . guns . . . yes, machine guns. But not only guns. They make machines and other things, too." Here's a guy apologizing because we discoved...