Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warmly and sincerely congratulate you on being now in a free country, and I hope this will be an important step for you on your path to inner freedom...
Would Amalric go unpunished for such bold talk? Whatever his ultimate fate, it seemed certain that he would retain his "inner freedom...
...leaders of Prague's short-lived Springtime of Freedom have long since been silenced. Alexander Dubček is variously reported on an extended vacation in Slovakia or undergoing treatment in a Prague sanatorium. Josef Smrkovsky, the onetime darling of Czechoslovak liberals, is on an enforced vacation in Bohemia. Hundreds of other officials, journalists and even schoolteachers have lost their jobs. But under the hard-line regime of Party Boss Gustav Husàk, who replaced Dubček seven months ago, the purges...
...Deputy's death revives involuntary memories of the Zapruder film. The coincidence of alleged complicities recalls the farther shores of Jim Garrison's New Orleans fantasies. But essentially Z is grinding its ax not for politicians but for politics. Tyranny is always better organized than freedom; beneath the idea of order-in Eastern Europe, says the film, as well as in Greece-truly anarchic forces are loosed upon the world. The Greek letter Z is a symbol for "he still lives." In this case, Z refers to the murdered Deputy. But it is also the spirit of revolt...
...same upper-middle class will be hiring the same hot young lawyers to win freedom for their sons, while the same ghetto class accepts induction like bad medicine. And the student deferment system remains intact. Confrontation with the I-A status is still postponed as it was before. until after graduation. The unofficial strings that post-graduates have pulled to stave off the draft entirely can still be pulled...