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...JOSEF JOFFE PUBLISHER AND EDITOR OF THE GERMANY WEEKLY DIE ZEIT...
Born in what is now the eastern Czech Republic in 1938, Josef Koudelka is one of the foremost photographers of his generation. He originally made a living as an aeronautical engineer, but began to gain recognition as a photographer through his pictures of drama productions. His debut exhibition was unveiled at Prague's Semafor Theatre in 1961, and soon afterward he began contributing to a theater magazine, Divadlo. While this connection to the stage seems arbitrary, it helped define two of his key qualities as a photographer: a knack for instinctively recognizing dramatic intensity in his subjects' lives...
...forever be respected. But they died liberating Poland because Stalin and Hitler had carved up that country in 1939. A real tragedy of the war was that Soviet soldiers "boldly entered foreign capitals and came back to their own one in fear," to quote the Nobel Prize Winner poet Josef Brodsky. They destroyed Nazism, but, in a bitter twist of history, their heroism in defense of the Motherland also shored up another despicable tyranny. And having liberated the countries of Eastern Europe, they installed a new occupation...
...What can we expect to come out of this?" sneers 66-year-old Josef Hruby. "Are we going to once again teach kids to put on gas masks and hide in shelters...
...goes according to plan, the exchange will happen in summer 2008, according to Associate Provost of Art and Culture Sean T. Buffington ’91. The Lowell bells, the oldest of which dates back to the 17th century, were purchased by an American industrialist just as Josef Stalin was seizing church artifacts across the Soviet Union and melting them down to raw material. The industrialist, Charles R. Crane, gave the bells to Harvard in 1930—the same year the monastery was closed. “These bells serve as a link between the past and present...