Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under Nazi rule, the Germans used the great hall of Pankrac Prison in Prague as a combination courtroom and execution chamber. Last week into Pankrac's great hall the Czech Communist government brought its own victim: Associated Press Correspondent William N. Oatis, who was arrested by Czech police nearly three months ago (TIME, May 7). He was charged with "espionage" and "activities hostile to the state." But his real crime was reporting the news...
...textbook on Russian grammar* barely touched on the "inseparable friendship" of Czechs for their protectors in the U.S.S.R., barely mentioned the "immense love of Czechoslovak peoples for the great Stalin." The books on geography were guilty of "objectivity," failed to show "the real face of capitalism-the misery and oppression of the working class." The writers of the history textbooks did not even seem to know when the "New Era" began (i.e., with the Russian Revolution). And nowhere was there anywhere near enough attention paid to the life & works of Joseph Stalin or of his faithful servant, Czech President Klement...
...compulsory subject in Czech schools...
French tennis fans have a word for an old hand who plays a steady, smooth-stroking, unspectacular game: "crocodile." In the recent French championships the fans spotted two of the species:* Lefthander Jaroslav Drobny, 32, a self-exiled Czech now playing for Egypt, and South Africa's Eric Sturgess, 29, whose smooth ground strokes are reminiscent of the days when tennis was played, and won, from the base line. By the semifinals of the French tournament not one of the slam-bang U.S. players was left, and the pride of the victorious Australian Davis Cup team, Frank Sedgman...
...commissions, makes most of his money teaching a weekly composition class at Mannes, another at Princeton. Only his last few U.S. works bring royalties, and they are tiny. Few recordings of his music are available here. Most of his manuscripts are still in Czechoslovakia, and irretrievable. So are his Czech royalties...