Word: slovaks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Michael Novak's Slovak grandparents, oppressed by the Austro-Hungarian empire, emigrated to the United States for the classic reasons. One grandfather became a Pennsylvania farmer. One grandmother, widowed, hired out as housekeeper and laundress. Novak's parents mobiled upward, from Johnstown's Slovak ghetto to "the WASP suburb on the hill." Then Michael went the rest of the way. He is a sober-profiled Catholic professor of philosophy and religion, currently at the State University of New York. But with a book in one hand (perhaps even his own A Theology for Radical Politics...
Haunting Question. Husák himself during the 1950s spent eight years in prison for placing his Slovak nationalism ahead of his allegiance to Communism. Ever since he succeeded Dubček in 1969, he has persistently claimed that he would not tolerate political trials. Apparently he has been under pressure from the Russians to crack down on would-be reformers; last month, an editorial in Pravda warned of the "mortal danger" of "counterrevolution in Czechoslovakia...
...enthusiasm the ambivalence among the Catholic radicals concerning black nationalism and white ethnic power. While sympathetic to the demands by blacks for more control over their lives and more respect for black culture, the radical Catholic has systematically sought to destroy the traditions and culture of Polish, Italian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Irish and French Canadian Catholics. Somehow, these traditions and customs are basically "unprogressive." In place of the parish, the Catholic radical has sought small group liturgies which lend themselves more to suburban homes and college campuses than to the Italian ghetto in East Harlem...
...into activities under Dubč that are now considered questionable. Loss of party cards has meant loss of livelihood as well. Teachers have had to become taxi drivers; diplomats, hotel clerks; and intellectuals, gas-station attendants. Even the still popular Dubč is now a minor bureaucrat in the Slovak Ministry of Forests...
...defenders insist that he is compelled to pursue a tough course because of pressure from Moscow and is only waiting until after the 14th Congress to institute improvements. That may well be wishful thinking. Last month, at the Slovak Communist Party's Congress in Bratislava, he said: "Various reformers entertain the hope that there will be a more liberal period after the Party Congress. If they mean freedom for bourgeois tendencies, for laying the foundations for a new disruption, they should not entertain any illusions." He has also denounced Communist "radishes," meaning party members who are red outside...