Word: ottokar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN; RED RACKHAM'S TREASURE; THE CRAB WITH THE GOLDEN CLAWS; KING OTTOKAR'S SCEPTRE. All written and illustrated by Hergé. All 62 pages. Atlantic-Little, Brown. Paperback $1.95 each. No one should be put off by Tintin himself, a boy in knickers with a muffin face and a tuft of hair rising to a curled peak like a Hokusai wave. Or by Captain Haddock, his bearded rum-sodden sidekick. Or by the small white dog, known as Milou in the original French versions of these stories, but for some...
...great wit, suspense and true humor rising both from character and from a remarkably sophisticated view of the world. These four books variously send Tintin, Haddock, Snowy and two idiot detectives in black bowlers into the desert to chase opium smugglers, into central Europe to try to keep King Ottokar from losing the throne of Syldavia, back into history to recall the voyages of Haddock's pirate ancestor Red Rackham on the ship Unicorn, and, finally, down to the bottom of the Caribbean in a sharklike submarine after Rackham's treasure. Hergé, the nom de plume...
...first the KGB mailed these false letters from Prague, using the return address of the well-known author and psychiatrist Josef Nesvadba. Later they supposedly were sent by a certain Ottokar Gorsky, whose home address was given as 1, Revolution Street, the location of the Czechoslovak airline and tourist offices. But Gorsky's telephone number indicated that he lived in another district-which happens to be the location both of the Soviet embassy and the Czechoslovak secret police...