Word: ek
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Czechoslovak Party Boss Gustav Husák could hardly have been more emphatic. In response to a question by a visiting French Communist about reprisals against onetime followers of ousted Reformer Alexander Dubček, Husák declared: "There is and will be no trial and no arrest for political activities in 1968 and 1969, and there is and will be no trial or arrest for opinions held. Socialist legality will be scrupulously respected...
Unfortunately, Husák was lying. Even as he gave those assurances earlier this month to Roland Leroy, a member of the French Communist Politburo, the first large-scale mass arrests since Dubček's downfall were in process. As of last week, more than 200 Czechoslovaks had been rounded up. About 40 were charged with distributing leaflets that denounced last November's national-assembly elections as a rigged farce-which, of course, they were. Many of the others were liberal intellectuals and journalists who supported Dubček's short-lived Springtime of Freedom, which...
...pieces and expect to produce anything important. Composers from Mozart to Richard Strauss changed the language slightly, but it still remained the same language. Basing my judgment on his operas, I would say Strauss is the greatest composer of the 20th century. Leoš Janáček is another great composer, who is just beginning to be discovered...
...current price of McDonald's hamburgers, he brushed it aside with: "I've come directly from the States. I haven't been to Scotland recently." Thereupon, he began flashing small cards at me with the penciled names of Czech dissidents, deeply involved in the Dubéek era. I instantly recognized them, but pretended not to know them at all. After a dozen tries, my friend sneered, "You're not very good at your job, are you?" I assured him that I was far better at mine than he was at his. Muttering an oath...
...Lobos' demanding score, unfortunately, has too little dramatic variety and characterization. The opera focuses on Yerma with such single-mindedness that only an extraordinary singing actress-and such types are rare-could bring it off. Poulenc made the same demand in La Voix Humaine, Jánaček in The Makropulos Case, Cherubini in Medea, Richard Strauss in Salomé and Elektra. All in some degree have paid the price in lack of performances. Yerma needs a soprano who can act like Maria Callas and sing like Leontyne Price. In Santa Fe it had Mirna Lacambra, a young...