Word: josef
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early '20s. Along with Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, the book became a popular symbol of the antimilitarism and distrust of glorious causes that flourished between the wars. Published in the U.S. in 1930-with Švejk spelled Schweik-the book, illustrated by Josef Lada, became a bestseller. The editors of that day discreetly excised more than one-third of the text, because of Švejk-Schweik's scatological expressions. This new version by Sir Cecil Parrott of the University of Lancaster translates every excremention that Švejk is prone...
...scene, rearrange themselves in varying zigzag patterns as a good unit set should. Meanwhile, barricade walls slide in and out from the wings, prison bars float gracefully down from the flies. All this has its effective moments, although it seldom looks like medieval Sicily. What Dexter and Set Designer Josef Svoboda have really done is to build a stairway to a bella voce evening - and that is something Caballe and her swains provide...
...Died. Josef Smrkovsky, 62, liberal chairman of the Czechoslovak National Assembly during the ill-fated "Prague spring" of 1968; of cancer; in Prague. Smrkovsky entered government service following World War II. He was imprisoned from 1951 to 1955 on charges of "activities against the state," but was exonerated in 1963 and elected president of the National Assembly five years later. Smrkovsky, one of Liberal Czech leader Alexander Dubcek's key aides, publicly called for such reforms as freedom of speech, religion and press; after the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968, he fell into disfavor with party hard-liners...
...Minor. It became his most popular work and, after the Tchaikovsky First Concerto, the most popular piano concerto in the repertory. As for Rachmaninoff, he went on to lead one of the few 20th century musical careers that can accurately be called spectacular. Only the Pole Josef Hofmann could be compared with him as a virtuoso pianist, and even Hofmann behaved deferentially around Rachmaninoff. No other concert pianist, except Prokofiev, had Rachmaninoff's stature as a composer. No composer since Liszt ranked as such a keyboard soiree idol...
HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH, Aves--Magnificent Frigate Bird, Great Flamingo, by Nancy Graves (1973) and Viva L'Italia, by Roberto Rossellini, Nov. 29 at 7:30, $1; The General, with Buster Keaton, Dec.2, at 4, $1, people under 16 and over 65 free; The Town by Josef von Sternburg, and History Lessons (1973), by Jean-Marie Straub, Dec. 2, at 7:30, free, sponsored by the Institute of Politics...