Word: ek
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most operas concentrate on the obvious: love (usually thwarted), murder, political connivery. Not those by Czech Composer Janáček (TIME, Dec. 5, 1969), who had a taste for fantasy and the mysterious. Moreover, in The Makopoulos Affair, completed in 1925 three years before his death, the composer created an opera that offers no arias, no immediately whistleable tunes but is nonetheless marked by a considerable genius. Last week, when the New York City Opera produced it, a sellout audience responded with a twelve-minute ovation, a generous part of it in praise of the ingenuity used by Director...
...Czechoslovaks-and for much of the world-Aug. 21 will live forever in infamy. On that day two years ago, Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia and crushed the country's promising Springtime of Freedom, which was led by Reformer Alexander Dubček. The first anniversary of that event was marked by three days of violent anti-Soviet demonstrations in Prague and a dozen other cities. Last week, on the second anniversary of the Soviet invasion, the dispirited Czechs did not bother to protest...
...country from the counter-revolutionists by their invasion. Throughout Czechoslovakia, the government called meetings to push that theme. At a parade in Karlovy Vary, celebrating the conclusion of the largest joint Soviet-Czechoslovak military maneuvers ever held, even old President Ludvik Svoboda, once an ally of Dubček's, mouthed a party slogan: "With the Soviet Union forever, and never otherwise...
...Ultras. Under the circumstances, the quiet observance of the anniversary was the wisest course for the Czechoslovaks. Though Husák is a stern hardliner, he is nonetheless determined to prevent the country from sliding back into the reign of police terror that characterized the pre-Dubček days. The peaceful anniversary may help Husák convince the Soviets that he has the situation under control and that his program of "normalization" is almost completed. This would enable him to resist the demands of the Czechoslovak Ultras, who want a return to even stricter political controls and show...