Word: journals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...financed whole regiments to help relieve the beleaguered Cuban revolutionaries after decades of Spanish oppression. No matter that the President, all but one of his Cabinet, and much of the business community opposed a fight with Spain. Wild enthusiasm for war had been whipped up by the "yellow" journalism of the day, particularly by Pulitzer's New York World and Hearst's New York Journal. Letters calling for war came in from every part of the country. One angry Senator burst into Assistant Secretary of State William Day's office, brandishing his cane and shouting...
...Vaculik, 41, Playwright Ivan Klima, 36, and Critic Antonin J. Liehm for "attitudes incompatible with party membership," 2) purged Novelist Jan Procházka, 38, of his alternate membership on the Central Committee for "mistakes in his literary activities," and 3) placed Literární Noviny, the weekly journal of the Czechoslovakian Writers' Union, under the Ministry of Culture for "becoming the platform for political views opposite to the Czech Communist Party...
...most of the 90 Negro undergraduates have joined the campus Black Student Alliance and consider "assimilation" with tradition-oriented student societies an act of Uncle Tomism. Half of Harvard's 180 Negro undergraduates belong to the Association of African and Afro-American Students, which publishes a sophisticated Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs...
This month the regime surprised everyone when it permitted the journal Literdrni Noviny to pay tribute to Thomas Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's first President, on the 30th anniversary of his death; to the Communists, Masaryk had previously been an unperson. The party has been far less gracious toward writers like Ladisla Mňaċko, author of the novel The Taste of Power. It took away Mňaċko's Czechoslovakian citizenship when he dared to go to Israel in protest against the government's pro-Arab policy in the recent Middle Eastern...
...magazine will be aimed at practical matters also. "This is not a theoretical or scholarly journal," says Yokel. "We are writing about problems people in the movement face which have grown out of organizing situations...