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Pictures from an invasion
Scoopit! This link is to a series of still photos in black and white taken by Josef Koudelka of Prague and held by the famous Magnum photo agency. They show a variety of scenes as the Soviets take ove… more →
The Inquiring Mind
Bush-ism with a Human Face
wrote 3 weeks ago: By N.S. Palmer, Ph.D. Waaaay back in the 1960s — yes, during that tiresome decade of Woodstock … more →
Prague Spring
wrote 4 months ago: I came across this phrase while looking up the term Prague Summer, a phrase used in Jeffery Toobin … more →
Daylily Admirer
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wrote 5 months ago: When I went out to see what was blooming in the daylily patch last, someone else was already admirin … more →
The beginning of the end
wrote 5 months ago: The woman question The protesting women of Iran, much celebrated on this blog for their courage and … more →
The End of the Prague Spring
wrote 6 months ago: “Shoot!” screamed the man in thee blue overalls. Emil Gallo is a municipal plumber in Br … more →
How the BBC Produces a Psychosis (depending on the situation)
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wrote 6 months ago: I have been reading and listening to the anti-Ahmadinejad protests that have been going on in Iran f … more →
Review: Goodman Theatre’s “Rock ‘n’ Roll” - triumphantly captivating and celebratory
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wrote 7 months ago: Goodman Theatre molds Tom Stoppard’s harrowing play into an incredibly human package Review by Barry … more →
The Eternal Prague Spring
wrote 8 months ago: … Chatting with Richard Krpac, Consul General of the Czech Republic, Toronto A city of contras … more →
Warning to Radiohead: Messing with Miley Cyrus is No Laughing Matter
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wrote 9 months ago: It seems that Radiohead has gone mano-a-Montana with pop-singer Miley Cyrus. The feud goes back to t … more →
Two Separate Passions.
wrote 9 months ago: “…when Tomas made love he kept his eyes open, focused and observant, his body ever so sl … more →
Polish national stadium with the name of a hero?
wrote 10 months ago: National hero Ryszard Siwiec/Image courtesy: wikipedia.org An important and late gesture towards a s … more →
1969's normalization
wrote 11 months ago: Yesterday MeinMann and I went to the Prague Spring exhibition at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni. Phot … more →
Tom Stoppard's "Rock 'n' Roll"
wrote 1 year ago: I recently saw Tom Stoppard’s play “Rock `n` Roll” at the Huntington Theatre. The play is set in … more →
The NY Sun Files: Plastic People of the Universe
wrote 1 year ago: Regimes and revolutions come and go, but the Plastic People of the Universe are forever. Nearly 40 y … more →
SCRIPTURE STUDY: Jerusalem Spring
wrote 1 year ago: Following the initial Pentecost event, where a new moment in salvation history is signaled by the re … more →
Once is never enough.
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wrote 1 year ago: Isn’t that the truth? I was stalking through the internet yesterday looking for people’s … more →
The Communist Era & Russian Occupation - 1945 - 1989
wrote 1 year ago: Soon after WWII, the power in the country went largely to the hands of the Communist Party and the f … more →
The Prague spring then and Ossetia today?
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wrote 1 year ago: On this day 40 years ago was the day of the Soviet intervention in the Czechoslovakian reform moveme … more →
Forty years ago
wrote 1 year ago: Scoopit! The above video is a Dutch news bulletin broadcast on the occasion of the Soviet invasion o … more →
