Word: journals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rare Moment. At week's end the Czech poet Miroslav Holub compared the Soviet attitude to that of the medieval Popes who denied that the earth moves around the sun. "This country is in the position of Giordano Bruno,"* wrote Holub in the journal Literárni Listy. "We are supposed to deny everything that we know to be true. We are to admit that the sun is revolving, and that we are facing a counter-revolution." Czechoslovakia is obviously unwilling to do so. "Rarely are there moments," concluded Holub, "when a people is as certain...
...address to the Assembly last week, Couve de Murville promised "to ease up the structures to provide more abundant and objective information." But the satirical weekly Canard Enchainé was less sanguine. Fearing that many of the most conscientious O.R.T.F. newsmen will ultimately be purged, the journal asked, "Why has De Gaulle pardoned [General Raoul] Salan but continues to refuse to pardon the TV newsmen? Because Salan only took up arms and the newsmen are asking for free speech. Speech is De Gaulle's special domain. One must not forget that he carried out his hardest campaigns...
...JOURNAL. "Plumes for My Rich Aunt." British Journalist Alan Whicker describes the world of Paris haute couture as glamorized by models "who can wear furs in August, swimsuits in December . . . and look snooty and deadpan even with sand in their shoes" in this bizarre peek at the citadel of high fashion. Interviews with Designers Gerard Picard and Pierre Balmain...
...Secrets. Antonin Liehm, the bubbly editor of the journal Literárni Listy, speaks of the atmosphere as "a lovely dream from which we never want to wake." The dream, however, does have its limitations. Most of them are the result of the Dubček regime's fear of going too far too fast and perhaps allowing the reforms to get out of hand. Though the government has formally abolished censorship, for example, it asks editors not to write about some 12,000 items on a list of "state secrets." The list includes such seemingly harmless subjects...
...enthusiasm of La Leche mothers is now receiving increased scientific support. A husband-wife team of physician and psychologist, Dr. Michael Newton and Dr. Niles Newton of Chicago, point out in the New England Journal of Medicine that the survival of the species originally depended upon "the satisfactions gained from the two voluntary acts of reproduction-coitus and breast feeding. These had to be sufficiently pleasurable to ensure their frequent occurrence." There never has been any argument about the pleasure of coitus, but the satisfactions of lactation were submerged in the prudery and false modesty of the Edwardian...