Word: veras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only feels "strong and healthy" but also displays, in an illustration, a red nose. Though the book is on the state's list of recommended reading for five- and six-year-olds, shocked officials (while not banning Little Red Riding Hood itself) eliminated this version. Explained spokeswoman Vera Jashi: "We have a very strong alcohol- and drug-abuse program in the district. This book gives us a double message...
...outspoken politics and insurrectionist art, he was subjected to discrimination because he was born to wealth. His father was a real estate developer. An even richer uncle owned hotels and the Barrandov movie studios, which remain the center of Czechoslovak filmmaking. One of his English-language translators, Czech emigre Vera Blackwell, has said, "If Czechoslovakia had remained primarily a capitalist society, Vaclav Havel would be just about the richest man in the country." Instead, by the time Havel was a teenager, the communists had dispossessed the family. More painful still, Stalinist rules barred youths of upper-class descent from full...