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Students' Quarterly, University of Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, July...
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...fact only a few, philosophically advanced journals, like Problemi and Praxis, operate outside the system. This may not be because these writers are so alienated, but because they feel themselves above the activist approach. I spent some time with the bearded director of Problemi in his modest Ljubljana office. He described himself as a "political nihilist, not interested, and not searching for feasible solutions." He admitted that most journals of this sort are too intellectual to have a broad-based appeal...
Upper Slovenia, and mountaineers ornamented their long, flat hives with small, gaily painted panels. So beguiling are they that collectors from Switzerland, Austria and even France have lately taken to combing the hills to find them. And last week, to show their richness and variety, the Ethnographical Museum in Ljubljana put on display 300 beehive paintings from museums and private collections...
...greatest comic invention is to take a horde of thirsty European journalists on a boondoggling press junket to the Near East. At each unlikely way station toward a destination never reached, they consume more and more tree booze, "compliments of Magic Carpet." By the time of the denouement in Ljubljana, ?5,000 worth of liquid hospitality has been consumed. While they drink, Frayn mocks but does not eviscerate; the chroniclers of a society, he seems to be saying, mirror the society itself...