Word: likes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just looks like stacks of hay," said Tippi C. Saydam '91. "It looks like you're in the middle of a farm...
Quad residents and passers-by are meant to wander around the hay and alter the set-up, said Umminger. "We would like people to start playing with it and make new patterns...
...playwright Vaclav Havel, leader of Czechoslovakia's human rights movement, said wryly, "We cannot rule out the situation that all occupiers of this country will have renounced the occupation, and only the occupied will still stand behind it." Added Havel, who is known for his absurdist dramas: "It is like something out of my own plays...
Czechoslovakia also had men like Havel, who has waged a long and frustrating battle against the Communist regime, serving more than four years in jail for his pains. If anyone had suggested two weeks ago that a mass movement to overthrow Jakes would be led by him and his artistic and literary confreres, Havel would have been the first to laugh. But as the most prominent figure in Prague's rapidly coalescing opposition, Havel has rocketed to near cult status. "I am a writer and human rights activist, not a politician," insisted Havel. But as a Western diplomat in Prague...
...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 turned out to be an unstoppable force...