Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign to silence "unruly" writers, Czechoslovakia's Communist regime is writing its own record of repression. Last week, at a two-day meeting in Prague, the party's Central Committee 1) expelled from the party Novelist Ludvik Vaculik, 41, Playwright Ivan Klima, 36, and Critic Antonin J. Liehm for "attitudes incompatible with party membership," 2) purged Novelist Jan Procházka, 38, of his alternate membership on the Central Committee for "mistakes in his literary activities," and 3) placed Literární Noviny, the weekly journal of the Czechoslovakian Writers' Union, under the Ministry of Culture...
...serves as counsel for the National Association of Police Officers, Oteri is not the sort usually expected to be behind such causes, but the marijuana law "gripes me," he explains. "The hazards of marijuana are a myth." As a means of proving it, he took on the defense of Ivan Weiss and Joseph Leis, two college dropouts charged with possession of marijuana with intent to sell it. In court last week, Oteri could not get their names straight. But otherwise, he gave them a painstakingly prepared defense-the product of six months of research...
...Oteri, the hearing before Judge Tauro is probably the beginning of a long legal trial that could eventually lead to the U.S. Supreme Court. And defendants Joseph D. Leis and Ivan Weiss, both 25-year-old Philadelphians, could become gods in the pantheon of hippiedom...
...IVAN L. DENNIS...
...giant with a voice and a soul. What really captivated Montreal's audience and critics was the fact that the Bolshoi's Boris captured not only the barbaric power of the work but also its subtle psychology. At the head of an effective cast, Basso Ivan Petrov projected passion better than pitch, but his booming, dramatically harrowing portrayal of the tormented tyrant was still a triumph...