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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same sort of solidarity with Dubcek as Svoboda had shown. Many of them wore red, white and blue corsages and carried IVAN GO HOME! placards. Thev burned propaganda leaflets dropped from Soviet helicopters. Hundreds of thousands of citizens in fac tories, sports clubs and professional associations signed petitions calling upon Svoboda to declare Czechoslovakia neu tral and withdraw from the Warsaw Pact. Radio Prague began broadcasting the license-plate numbers of secret police cars so that people could slash their tires...
...Review come upon this incisive but altogether forgotten Frenchman? Pretty much by happenstance, says Editor Barbara Epstein. Painter Leonid Berman, an old friend who has a cherished collection of Grandville's il lustrated books (all now collector's items), proposed Grandville. Delighted with Grandville's rangy repertoire, Editor Epstein has published his drawings in nearly every issue since...
...persevere in facing the reforms necessary for a more just and efficient social arrangement." Facing up to Latin America's social ills, Paul declared, demands "progressive advantage for the classes today less favored and fairer imposition of the fiscal burden on the more well-to-do classes, especially upon those who own vast estates and on those classes who, with little or no real toil, realize huge incomes...
...suit and the bare room that are the boundaries of his life. Within them he creates a solo performance of unbearable power. The shiny eyes dance behind rimless glasses, the arguments with God become a grudge fight, consciousness and the dream state mix until the tragedy plays itself out upon the bare stage of a wrecked mind...
...limited talent, Rivers rose to his exalted position as chairman of the Armed Services Committee only through the process of aging and the political savvy to be rhythmically re-elected by his constituents. Thanks to his influence, charge Pearson-Anderson, his home town of Charleston had military installations lavished upon it. "His district has prospered from his service on the military committees like a tick on a fat dog." But the authors wander astray when they maintain that he is "America's top security risk" because of his drinking problem. He has gone on the wagon since he became...