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Czech history is full of political polymaths--the nation's first president, T.G. Masaryk, was trained as a philosopher, while Vaclav Havel was well-known as a dissident playwright long before he ever took office. Miroslav Holub, a Czech poet and well-respected immunologist, is no exception to this tradition. His latest collection of essays, Shedding Life, investigates topics as disparate as animal experimentation, opera and civic engagement. Beneath the surface of these lapidary essays is a compelling political message, a crie-de-coeur against totalitarianism from a scientist who has witnessed ideology's perversion of the truth...
COLUMBIA: Holub 3-10 0-0 6; Ching 2-10 0-1 4; Schuneman 5-13 4-6 14; Cox 0-2 0-0 0; Nicusanti 8-21 3-4 22; Pappas 0-0 2-2 2. TOTALS...
...Lunz 4-13 1-2 11, Schuneman 7-15 1-2 17, Goff 0-6 0-0 0, Johnson 2-6 5-7 9, Haskins 2-7 1-2 5, Purkie 1-1 1-2 3, Jordan 0-0 0-0 0, Cox 0-0 0-0 0, Holub 1-4 2-2 4. Totals...
...holiday mood. Their message: Air Florida was immediately grounding its green-blue-and-white jets. The carrier (1983 revenues: $218 million) had filed for bankruptcy. The abrupt halt stunned employees and left many passengers with shattered plans, scattered luggage and tickets that other airlines refused to honor. Said Faye Holub, who had intended to visit her grandchildren in Chicago: "They gave me a customer-service number to call for a claim, but I think I'll have...
Rare Moment. At week's end the Czech poet Miroslav Holub compared the Soviet attitude to that of the medieval Popes who denied that the earth moves around the sun. "This country is in the position of Giordano Bruno,"* wrote Holub in the journal Literárni Listy. "We are supposed to deny everything that we know to be true. We are to admit that the sun is revolving, and that we are facing a counter-revolution." Czechoslovakia is obviously unwilling to do so. "Rarely are there moments," concluded Holub, "when a people is as certain...