Word: havelent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the ten-day prediction was a bit optimistic, Ash was in the ballpark. He gives a day-by-day account of the formation of the opposition Civic Forum, the mass demonstrations in the streets of Prague, and the rapid ascension of playwright Vaclav Havel from dissident to president...
...Civic Forum, the coalition opposition group, managed the nowdubbed Velvet Revolution from, of all places, a theatre called the "Magic Lantern." Ash brilliantly juxtaposes the gravity of the political situation with the ironic humor of Havel and his band of writers, artists, economists and politicians. He tells of how his press credentials bore Havel's personal stamp--"a beaming pussy cat with the word 'Smile' across his chest!" A second credential bears a stamp with a beaming green frog and the words tres bien...
...live action is more your style, Brattle Street's Loeb Drama Center, home of the American Repertory Theatre during the academic year, promises expert performances from the student Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theater. The company plans and August production of Czech President Vaclav Havel's "The Increased Difficulty of Concentration...
...General Secretary Milos Jakes, over their role in the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of their country. But the move was taken on the eve of the country's first free elections since 1946, and thus was seen as a bit of cheap political opportunism by Civic Forum, President Vaclav Havel's ruling coalition and easy winner at the polls...
...There was some sense that Havel would mitigate the embarrassment of having Kohl by himself," Wood says...