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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...About your story on Czechoslovak films [July 29]: Though you mention The Shop on Main Street, you ignore the film's author, Ladislav Grossman. Mr. Grossman, my childhood friend and schoolmate, wrote the story on the basis of very personal observation, and on the basis of the very personal suffering he underwent during World War II at the scene of the story. But for Mr. Grossman's great talent, there would have been no Shop on Main Street, and I fail to comprehend why the American habit of giving credit where credit is due is being so flagrantly...
Both the book and the film version of The Shop on Main Street were flops in Czechoslovakia, undoubtedly because of the guilty consciences of the people depicted. They chose to ignore the book and to walk out of the movie in mid-performance. Only the success of the film in the U.S. has changed this lethargy into a willingness at least to accept the honors...
Czechoslovakia is the latest country to have splashed up a new wave of fresh, original films by a coterie of talented directors and writers. "It's not a wave, it's a flood," proudly says Jan Kadar, whose The Shop on Main Street (co-directed by Elmar Klos) won this year's Oscar as the best foreign film. Within the past three weeks, two other Czech films have opened in Manhattan, and an astonishing 55 more have been acquired for U.S. distribution in the near future. Already festooned with garlands of laurels from European competitions, Milos Forman...
...bullet through a living body, in order to kill." Most ammunition sold in the U.S. each year is shot up by skeet-and trapshooters, rifle-match enthusiasts and wood-lot plinkers-gunmen no more bloodthirsty than golfers or bowlers. Yet that does not detract from the main point: U.S. gun laws are an ineffective muddle, and the nation would benefit from stricter enforcement of existing laws and sterner controls to keep arms out of irresponsible hands...
Actors and directors who work at the repertory theatre on the Loeb main stage during the summer are given grants-in-aid by the Summer School for their work. Unlike the people who appear in the HDC productions at Agassiz, mostly students at the College or Harvard graduate schools, performers at the Loeb are recruited from drama schools throughout the country...