Word: moravians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Czechoslovakia's national television network also juggled its beams from one location to another, always keeping one jump ahead of Soviet search parties. At one point, announcers were broadcasting from the city planetarium in the Moravian city of Brno. Crowed an engineer: "The Russians have plenty of tanks, but tanks cannot detect signals." Having learned just that, the Soviet commander in Moravia became so incensed at the persistent television coverage that he threatened to level the town if the station stayed on the air. Technicians thereupon switched off, temporarily. Meanwhile, cameramen were stuffing Bolex gear under their raincoats...
Tito received a hero's welcome. As he stepped from his Ilyushin-18 turboprop at Prague's airport, pretty girls in Moravian and Bohemian costumes pressed bouquets of carnations into his arms. In counterpoint to a thunderous 21-gun salute, thousands of Czechoslovaks chanted "Tito! Tito! Tito!" The route to the city was packed with thousands more, waving Yugoslav flags. At Prague's Hradčany Castle, Tito's residence during his two-day visit, a huge crowd kept up a continual clamor until Tito finally appeared on a balcony. "Long live Czechoslovak and Yugoslav friendship...
Smokies to Sea. Wachovia and the Southeast have prospered together. The bank was founded in 1879 by descendants of the Moravian settlers, who named the Upper Piedmont section of the state Wachau after a pretty valley in Austria. Wachovia was a relatively quiet little bank until about ten years ago. Then, convinced that the South was headed for tremendous growth, its management speeded up the bank's expansion and made an all-out bid for the business of big corporations...
...still not come to a conclusion about anything" and Cecilia herself, despite continual references to the depth of her breasts, stay singularly undimensional. Dino alone might save the novel, but Dino is not enough. Although he controls all the gifts of introspection, and perception which properly belong to all Moravian heroes, Moravia has failed to give him anything to perceive...
...reprint rights, Dino dies a thousand deaths on his cross of flesh. Characteristically, Moravia says that all this is simply a way to show that Dino is trying to achieve "reality"' by rediscovering the human touch. But when Cecilia takes on another lover, Dino is stuck in his Moravian hell indeed. In the end. nothing is solved or changed. After all, says Moravia, The Empty Canvas is about "my kind of boredom...