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Many of the country's cinema artists, who travel abroad a good deal, now find that they can feel at home in their own country for the first time. One of them is Actress Sylva Daničková, the lovely hostess at her country's Kinoautomat success at Expo 67. "I was always traveling abroad talking about politics, art, love-anything-critically, angrily and 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: LIFE UNDER LIBERAL COMMUNISM' | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

...Wolfgang grows up among the apes. Captured by hunters some time in the '30s, he returns to the family Schloss, where the estate is being run by his rascally cousin Heinrich (Martin Ružek). Heinrich hires an English governess called Regina (Jana Štěpaňková) to give the ape-baron enough training to convince a commission that he is competent to take over his rightful inheritance. On the sly, he offers her a handsome reward to fail; Regina, though, does her perfidious best to get Wolfgang's money while she gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: The Death of Tarzan | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

American Response. Such drawbacks are unlikely to deter the Soviet Union from placing increasing emphasis on seapower. Moscow not only relishes the new global reach that Admiral Gorsh-kov's navy has finally brought it, but it also views as an ideal opportunity the chance to capitalize on the U.S.'s preoccupation with Viet Nam and Britain's hasty withdrawal from East of Suez, seeking to impose its own presence where Western influence is diminishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Power Play on the Oceans | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

...intermission use, Say It Right! should do just fine. There is no known countermove to the man who leans on the bar and remarks with impeccable diction that "Dargomijskian naturalism" in opera began to disappear with Rimsky-Korsa-kov's "Snay-ga-ROTCH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ah-ca-PELL-cT | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

...last pious rite to the party, Father Janos to save his friends and fellow priests from further torture. But before he mounts the gallows, Rab, feeling "an absolute void within me,"' kneels before Father Janos and asks "to die in the peace of faith." Author Kovács sometimes mashes a thumb with his literary chisel, but when he hits the historic mark, the apocalyptic tableau of hammer and sickle v. the cross stands out in bold, fresh relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hammer, Sickle & Cross | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

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