Word: ra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ra Chytilová, whose dazzling photography and experiments in surrealism amount to nose thumbing at the party's effort to dictate style in art. Her Daisies, for example, is a plotless romp of two teenage girls whose stunts include holding up butterfly specimens in place of their bras, swinging from chandeliers and eating food ads instead of food. The work of Milos Forman has helped to make Czechoslovak films popular abroad; his Loves of a Blonde was a human, tender, wry love story of ordinary people with ordinary emotions that had no socialistic message to dull it; it appealed...
Died. Tullio Serafin, 89, Italian conductor of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera from 1924 to 1934; of a heart attack; in Rome. For half a century Serafin conducted at Milan's La Scala, the Met, London's Covent Garden, and Paris' Opéra. A great interpreter of Verdi and Puccini, he also championed such U.S. composers as Deems Taylor and Louis Gruenberg...
...Raúl claimed that Escalante had tried to arrange a trip to Moscow with "Russian Journalist" Vadim Lestov-actually, an NKVD agent-"to put forth his opinions" on how the Kremlin could whip Castro into line. In a secret report to Lestov, which ended up in Raúl's hands, Escalante criticized the government and warned that Fidel was planning to expand trade ties with France, thereby lessening Russian leverage...
Secret Report. The charges grew out of a long-winded report delivered before the Central Committee by Raúl Castro, Fidel's brother and the chief of Cuba's armed forces and internal security. Named as the conspiracy's ringleader was Anibal Escalante, 59, a onetime party chieftain who fell from favor in 1962 for his pro-Soviet views but was later allowed to return to Cuba after a two-year exile in Prague. This time, said Raúl, Escalante had organized an anti-Castro movement that extended into several key government ministries, the University...
Escalante and his lieutenants had similar meetings with a journalist of the Soviet news agency Novosti, the captain and first officer of a Soviet "fishing boat," and a Soviet adviser to Cuban intelligence. In one such meeting last year, Raúl said, Rudolf P. Shliapnikov, second secretary of the Soviet embassy in Havana, assured the group that Russia could bring Castro to his knees by simply cutting off oil shipments. "Rodolfo made his observation," Raúl noted dryly, "in the midst of laughter...