Word: vaculik
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...Vaculik said he did not know exactly how the visit would affect medical education in Czechoslovakia, but he said "it will definitely have an influence on our system...
Twenty-two-year-old Jan Vaculik, one of the Czech students, said he was impressed by the Medical School's tutorials, a central part of the school's "New Pathway" curriculum...
...discussion there is very informal, which allows students to talk freely. They don't have to worry about making mistakes in front of their teachers," Vaculik said...
...Vaculik said he was equally impressed with the technology he saw at the Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Hospital. "One of our professors said that Beth Israel Hospital contains as much technology as the whole city of Prague," he said...
...Ludvik Vaculik's novel The Guinea Pigs (NY: Third Press) is a most brilliant venture in the Kafka-esque vein. Like Joseph K. in The Trail, Vaculik's hero is a bank employee. He lives a petty monotonous life with his wife Eva, "two tolerable little boys" and a couple of newly acquired guinea pigs that soon become the center of the family life. Our clerk works in a weird bank; enigmatic employees of the bank walkd out everyday with some of the bank notes in their pockets. Sometimes the money is confiscated by the guards at the exit...