Word: janning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 for "becoming the platform for political views opposite to the Czech...
...confronted, more and more, by the strange, complex and fascinating riddle of ambiguity. No one is what he seems to be," says Californian Jan Stüssy. "I am obsessed by parables, riddles, codes, analogies, symbols, signs, and ideas which begin: What...
Obviously, Jan Stüssy, 46, is a man in a box. But happily for him, he is also a painter who has found in art "the only compass I can use to find my way." Along the route, he has managed to have 27 one-man shows, with paintings in dozens of U.S. and European galleries. He is professor of art at U.C.L.A., where 31 of his latest works are on display before going on a tour of South America later this year...
...also hopelessly in the red. Under the original law, HEW Secretary John Gardner was required to announce this week what the premium rates would be for 1968 and 1969. Last week he begged off, and both houses of Congress scurried to pass a reprieve bill, giving the Administration until Jan. 1 to decide what rates will become effective next April 1-most likely $4, depending partly upon what services Congress decides to cover...
...pragmatic scholarly manager last week in its choice of a new president. The regents unanimously selected Charles Johnston Hitch, 57, an economist who helped revolutionize money management in the Pentagon before moving to Cal as vice president for finance two years ago. He will take office on Jan. 1, succeeding Clark Kerr, who was fired eight months ago. Hitch survived the fine screening of a regents selection committee that started with 261 names, eventually worked down to six, including HEW Secretary John Gardner, Berkeley Chancellor Roger Heyns and U.C.L.A. Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy...