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Some composers challenge posterity with a roar. Others woo it with seductive languor or graceful wit. Austrian Composer Anton Webern conjured it with a whisper. A shy, intense man who physically shrank from noise, he wrote spare, slight pieces filled with directions like "scarcely audible" and "dying away." Such was the understated economy of his scores that his life's work amounts to a bare three hours of playing time. Nearly all of his compositions take less than ten minutes to perform. He turned out works containing as much silence as music, and that was how an indifferent world...
Only a few months ago, such scenes would have been almost unthinkable in Czechoslovakia, where questioning and dissent were rigidly suppressed by the strict, doctrinaire regime of Antonín Novotnŷ. Today, under the new reforms of Alexander Dubček, they are commonplace. Life in Czechoslovakia rings with the sounds of freedom. Despite a constant threat of reprisals from the Soviet Union, the political change has not only transformed public life but worked a captivating magic on the people's mood. It has made Czechoslovakia the most contagiously exciting country in Eastern Europe-and perhaps...
...uncertain terms, Dubček's program plots a return to the economic reforms designed by Economist Ota Šik, who has been nominated for one of five Deputy Premier posts in the new government. Slowed down under the regime of ex-Party Boss Antonín Novotný, the reforms place faith in market determination of prices, competition among enterprises, more incentives for workers and less bureaucratic control. The program proclaims that inefficient workers and factories will not be rewarded and that the consumer must be protected against high prices and inferior goods caused by "the monopoly position...
...orgy of breast-beating confessions was reminiscent of the old days, but the roles were curiously reversed. At Prague's Hradčany castle last week, deposed Party Boss Antonín Novotný led members of his old guard in recanting past mistakes before the Communist Party's Central Committee. He had, Novotný admitted, been guilty of "serious errors and aberrations" that had left "a dark stain" on the country. The reformers, many of whom had been humiliated by worse rituals in the past, did not linger long over their triumphal moment. After days of debate...
...special road to socialism. In a country where for 20 years civil and personal liberties had been mercilessly squashed, almost total freedom of expression now reigns, the police have been put in harness and demonstrations of every sort can take place. Dubček, who threw out the hardlining Antonín Novotný as party boss in January and as President in March, has transformed Czechoslovakia into the most liberal of Communist states. Hardly anything in Czechoslovakia is any longer so sacred that it cannot be questioned and, if necessary, changed. And the entire transformation has been worked without...