Word: klima
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second directly political play is The Jury, by Ivan Klima, another steadfastly liberal author. He puts onstage the deliberations of five jurymen in a criminal case. Slowly it becomes clear that a sixth juror has already been taken away for asking too many questions. Suddenly the remaining five see the accused for the first time. He has already been beheaded. As the jurors continue their deliberations, they come to the conclusion that the defendant was innocent. The play ends with the jurymen before the judge-where one after another they all vote "Guilty...
...campaign to silence "unruly" writers, Czechoslovakia's Communist regime is writing its own record of repression. Last week, at a two-day meeting in Prague, the party's Central Committee 1) expelled from the party Novelist Ludvik 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...
Close Shave. Even then he went into his last jump needing to come within 2 meters of the center to beat out Czechoslovakia's Vaclav Klima, 32, who put on an incredible show with an old-style chute. Not a sound could be heard from the 10,000 spectators as Fortenberry drifted down in his red, white and blue chute. Then a roar went up when the P.A. system announced his distance: 1.43 meters, for a whisker-thin victory...