Word: jaromil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...novel is a sly and merciless lampoon of revolutionary romanticism, and it deals with lyric poetry as a species of adolescent neurosis. The hero is an unpleasant young man named Jaromil, whose every childhood uncertainty has been marveled at by his crazed mother as evidence of an artistic soul. Out of resentment of her coarse husband, who hung his smelly socks on her beloved alabaster statuette of Apollo, this monstrous mother determined to make her infant son a poet...
...CINEMA, The Shop on Main Street, (Jan Kadar), The Cowards (Jiri Weiss) Nov. 30, at 7:30, $2, Fireman's Ball (Milos Forman) Intimate Lighting (Ivan Passer), Dec. 1, at 7:30, $2, films introduced by A. J. Liehm. Czech film critic, and discussed by the directors, The Joke (Jaromil Jires), Daisies (Vera Chytilova), Dec. 2, at 7:30, $2, series ticket...