Word: jaroslav
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...natal year of a pair of Czech novelists whose lookouts on the problem of monolithic authority and what to do about it are presently very much in point. In a country which has earned its reputation as the common stamping ground of optimistic power, Franz Kafka and Jaroslav Hasek came to know the texture and stink of vast administratives schemes so vicious, irrational, and irremediably tacky that they generate comedy and tragedy, like industrial waste, in awe-some volume, beyond any man's capacity to absorb without the saving intercession...
...essence of the film, though, is not in the comic-strip chiaroscuro of its plot but in the fun Director Jaroslav Balík and his cast have with their caricatures. Rudolf Hruŝínsky turns in a burly, brachycephalic performance as the ape man, first delighted by the apparent selflessness of humans-who do not fight for food at a reception and talk constantly of altruism-then horrified at the superjungle that gives the lie to their platitudes. "People, what are you doing?" he cries as the assorted forces of evil tangle in, around, up, down and through...
...competing in the Veterans' Gentlemen's Doubles. Bounding nimbly across the court, stretching for volleys, scrambling for lobs, Shriver and Partner Robert Kelleher, president of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association, easily defeated their first-round opponents 6-2, 6-0. Next day, though, they were paired against Jaroslav Drobny and A. V. Martini, a couple of old hands at the game. "They really gave us a shellacking," wheezed Sarge. "But it was terrific...
When the Roman Catholic Church speaks on moral problems, Protestant Theologian Jaroslav Pelikan points out, it speaks on one of three levels: 1) natural law, which it considers applicable to all men, Christian or not, by virtue of their creation; 2) revealed law, applicable to all Christians "in a state of grace"; and 3) church law, applicable only to members of a particular church. There is little dispute left over the last two categories. Few Catholics would argue any longer that revealed law (for instance, the Christian sacrament of marriage) or church law (for instance, the celibacy of priests) should...
...Yale's Lutheran Historian Jaroslav Pelikan, the Reformation was a "tragic necessity"-tragic in that it shattered the unity of Christendom, necessary in that it cleansed the church and restored man's faith in God to its Scriptural roots. It is equally true that the Reformation is an unrealized hope and unfinished ideal. Today, says Dr. Wilhelm Pauck of Union Theological Seminary, "one could characterize the spirit of our epoch as pre-Reformation. The old order is in a process of dissolution, but there is also a great positive religious expectancy...