Word: ko
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bass and Joe Farrell splitting three ways on tenor, soprano sax and flute, Jones here uses his flashy technique to inspire, shape and embroider a harmonically free, three-way dialogue. Reza and Jay-Ree brim with bright looping arches of sound reminiscent of Ornette Coleman. Soloing on Kei-Ko's Birthday March, Elvin gets under way with a humorous drum-corps pattern that soon turns into an exuberant display of staccato licks that would bring a real marching band to its knees...
...stern warnings against provocations. They also set up their own newspaper and a radio station called Radio Vltava, which could hardly compete with the free stations. Russian security men began arresting liberal intellectuals who had caused chagrin in the Kremlin. Among those held under house arrest was Ladislav Mnac-ko, author of the novel The Taste of Power, who was locked up, along with the editors of Svobodne Slovo in the newspaper's office in Prague...
...summit. One group was believed to have gone via Warsaw to brief Polish officials prior to the conference, and the other by way of East Germany to consult with party leaders there. The conference would most likely take place at either a villa at Zlatá Idka near Košice or a country lodge in the High Tatra Mountains. In both places, the Soviet leaders could easily beckon Russian troops who are tarrying in Eastern Slovakia. However close the troops, Dubček certainly did not plan to cower or apologize. Instead he hoped to take the offensive himself...
...happily, however I felt," says Miss Daničková. "But when I came home, it was silence. You couldn't really participate in the life of your country. Now you can." Another Czechoslovak who found that he could come home again is Author Ladislav Mriačko, who went into exile last summer in protest over his government's pro-Arab policy. Mnačko is back in Prague, where his biting novel about a Communist leader's downfall, The Taste of Power, has just been published for the first time...
...asserted that the earth was the center of the universe. And why would Joshua have commanded the sun to stand still (Joshua 10: 12-13) if it did not move? Galileo was forced to recant. Addressing a meeting of Nobel-laureate physicists at Lindau, West Germany, Franz Cardinal Koönig of Vienna announced: "I am in a position to declare that an initiative will be taken which will lead to an open and honest solution of this case." Although Church leaders and writers in recent decades have spoken warmly of Galileo-in 1965 Pope Paul praised him with Dante...