Word: jiri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SOUTH HOUSE FESTIVAL OF CZECHOSLOVAK FILMS: HILLES 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...
Forman will appear at the festival, as will Jiri Weiss (who began as a documentary film-maker), Kadar, and Ivan Passer...
...Jiri Pelikan, a former member of the deposed Dubcek government in Czechoslovakia, told a group of about 30 people in Cabot Hall last hight that contradictions between the ideals and the practice of socialism gave rise to the 1968 "Spring of Prague...
Jesuit achievements were as often secular as spiritual. French Jesuit Jacques Marquette paddled down the Mississippi in the first European expedition to explore that river. Brother Jiri Kamel, a Moravian botanist at the Jesuits' College of Manila in the 17th century, gave Europe the camellia. A German mathematician and astronomer of the Society of Jesus, Christoph Klau, contributed to the Gregorian calendar and gave his Latinized name, Clavius, to a lunar crater that he discovered...
ALPHONSE MUCHA by Jiri Mucha, Marina Henderson & Aaron Scharf. 136 pages. St. Martin's Press...