Word: honored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...memorial, where only days before angry crowds had confronted Soviet tanks, hippies strummed their guitars. Prague police hustled young Czechoslovaks away from the statue of Wenceslas, the country's patron saint, where for days they had kept a silent vigil in honor of the 70 or so patriots who died under Soviet guns and tank treads in the first days of the invasion. On the spot where the bloodied clothes of a slain 14-year-old had lain surrounded by candles, city workmen emplanted rows of blooming red salvias. Then a water truck sprayed the flowers, finishing...
Imperial Russian counts have never carried much clout in the Soviet Union. But Count Leo Tolstoy is somebody special. Last week marked the 140th birth day of the great author, whose deep sympathy for the restive peasants of his day has earned him the approval of the Kremlin. To honor the occasion there was a large party at Moscow's State Museum and a mass pilgrimage to his grave. For a change, party functionaries and intellectuals found something they could celebrate together...
...With its emphasis on ceremony and doctrine, the congress could have little bearing on the problems of poverty and social callousness that plague Latin America. Pope Paul selected Colombia, Latin America's most unshakably Catholic country, as the site for this year's event, frankly calling the honor "a prize for Colombia's illustrious services to the Catholic cause...
...guest of honor? Leonard Bernstein, who-hard to believe-turned 50. Still youthful in appearance, interests and energy (he now jogs with his 13-year-old son Alexander), Bernstein was starting his 1968-69 season with a five-week European tour. At season's end, he ceases to be the Philharmonic's permanent conductor, and plans to de vote most of his time to writing music; his first big project is a new Broadway production based on Brecht's The Exception and the Rule. By virtue of his achievements with the Philharmonic and as composer, author, pianist...
...best novels of James Gould Coz zens (Guard of Honor, The Just and the Unjust) are like carefully preserved late-model Packards: grand and stately vehicles that are neither quite contemporary nor completely anachronistic. But always they are models of impeccable workmanship. In them Cozzens' highly polished prose style gleams like a Simonize job; his subtly conceived characterizations are spun like fine grillwork; and his intricately devised plots are so delicately tuned that they can hum and purr when idling...