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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter to The Crimson last week, Stefan Klasen '91 proposed that "After World War II, those who supported Hitler kept their mouths shut, for obvious reasons, and were hardly able to pass on their horrific heritage." But many people don't share Klasen's rosy diagnosis, and they can't be blamed...
...first tried to give East European Communism a "human face," would return to Prague so triumphantly, or be welcomed so deliriously? Yet day after day, as the leaden skies of late autumn began turning to dusk, the crowds beneath the statue of St. Wenceslas in downtown Prague kept growing, in size and in confidence. By late last week they had swelled into the largest protests in Czechoslovakia's history: a half million chanting, shouting, horn- honking people, all bent on ousting the repressive rule of Communist Party leader Milos Jakes. They achieved their primary objective in just eight days...
Havel and his fellow intellectuals led Czechoslovakia's peaceful revolution in part because no one else was prepared to. Purges following the 1968 invasion wiped out all potential reformers within the party, and a continued hard line kept any progressive new party figures from emerging. The government also used Czechoslovakia's relative prosperity to buy off the workers, who proved reluctant, if not downright timid, about demanding change. Last week the workers listened to men like Havel and agreed to join in. Said a truck driver: "They showed us not to be afraid." That coalition of intellectuals, students and workers...
IUSED to enjoy reading the newspaper. I would gloss over the articles, read some summaries and peruse the editorials. It was a daily, casual event that kept me abreast of the times, but didn't demand much intellectual strain...
...14th century, when the bubonic plague ravaged Europe, Italian physicians wore an elaborate garb to protect themselves from infection. The outfit extended from head to foot and was made entirely of leather. A wide-brimmed hat kept the physician from the patient, and the doctors never touched the patients by hand. The suit also included a protruding beak stuffed with herbs to "purify" the air and separate the physician and the patient...