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9/1/1989 - Untitled by Derek Paton

NOT FOR PUBLICATION WITHOUTWRITER SCONSENT DBP INSTITUTEOFCURRENTWORLDAFFAIRS Mr Peter B Martin Prague Czechoslovakia Institute Current World Affairs September West Wheelock St Hanover NH 03755 Dear Peter About weeks I friend Pavel apartment imice housing development prefab rises northern Prague I address student dormitory Kajetnka About castle Hradany closer imice center I spared travelling punctual often crowded busses trams Getting settled required about three trips Center Foreign Relations Ministry Education trips Commercial Bank trips office foreign Charles University visits housing authorit Kajetnka three trips police headquarters other actually trips because I mistak Wednesday afternoon closed where I ceived returned application questionnaire short autobiography photos K Czechoslovak crown stamp Actually fifth police because having wrongly sumed purchased stamp police I leave office return stamp While officials everywhere pleasant enough I somehow coordination could saved unforeseen running My first letter sundry survey Czech magazines focus young people endeavours translated parts recent Czech interview maker Milo Forman description music events I superb theatrical My letter about conversations these performers My previous ignorance media example blurry picture I gradually clearing There magazines journals published Czech alone Slovak I heard imagined To diversity I presenting general interest cultural magazines along Derek Paton Fellow Institute Current World Affairs studying culture Czechoslovakia Since Institute Current World Affairs Crane Rogers Foundation provided fellowships enable outstanding young adults outside United States write about international areas issues Endowed bythelateCharlesR Crane theInstituteisalsosupportedbyconlributionsfromlike mindedindividualsand foundations their format price graphic point reference litre costs about Kcs Svt obrazech The World Pictures weekly establis It might modelled Life magazine although looks weekend magazine American newspaper It covers politics nature among other things mostly color black white photographs In terms advertising example August issue quarter Supraphone records office equipment especially computers It costs Ks Similar format I content Kvty Flowers It weekly Ks about sixty pages It crossword puzzles television listings serialized novel pages advertisements Rud pravo Red Law Czechoslovak Communist Party daily newspaper publisher zahranini zajimavost Foreign Affairs roughly resembles Time appearance It bimonthly whose approximately sixty pages carry articles foreign press Washington Post M oscow Literary Gazette International Herald Tribune Stern On pages advertisements camping equipment Jan Kode Tennis Club There least magazines ZAbr Shot Take bimonthly tabloid format existence twenty years At Ks eighteen pages carries criticism films compilation various critics point ratings Filmov pehled Film Survey small format monthly forty eight newsprint pages costs Ks Kino Cinema which larger format focuses personalities industry whereas Film Film Era depth monthly connoisseurs which published twenty years about fifty seven pages costs Ks Dramatick title magazine dramatic costs K6s copies For music there monthly Hudebni rozhl Musical Review which costs Ks quarterly Hudebffi Musicology ninety pages Ks Popular music covered Melodie Gramo revue There small tabloid shaped bimonthly Architekt which eight pages black white photos illustrations costs K6s Ateli years color black white photographs It eight pages tabloid format while plastic seems aimed popular audience For general Institute Theory History Art Czecho slovak Academy Sciences publishes Umni times issue about pages costs Ks In similar estetika which recently published correspond between Mann Karel which something would wider audience I would thought receives rather specialized journal Mlad Young World about thirty large sized usually black white It costs K6s carries generally lively articles emphasis obviously young people It jokes quality cartoons example August issue cartoons talented Vladimir Rennin Published Central Committee Socialist Youth Organization Mlad fronta thirty first The women magazine Vlasta weekly costs Ks I occasionally interesting It usually carries stories excellent woman worker advice women 2cipes serialized novel crossword about women Nasl prlrodou Our nature monthly shape Time about thirty seven pages It color black white photos ochrancu prlrody The Czech Union Conservationists publisher apparently published sharp critical articles warning against destruction natural environment Czechoslovakia Pra monthly dedicated solely about Prague history example being renovated It costs Ks Time glossier carries translations articles Russian French German English It seems comparatively large issue Dikobraz Porcupine words satirical humour weekly It existence forty years costs Ks It sixteen pages cartoons various Czech artists quarterly title which about sixty pages costs Ks sometimes theme whole issue Czech literature represented least three journals Literrni msinik Literary monthly about pages published Union Czech Writers costs Ks I anyone praise In newspaper format Tvorba which translated production creation activity performance It weekly literatur politics First published eighteen pages tabloid black white photographs drawings Rud publisher costs Ks Very similar format Kmen meanings include trunk tribe people species It weekly Union Czech Writers costs Ks The learns books through Nov knihy New Books eight weekly hellers crown Wednes people bookstores Thursday selected before A popular letters Czech comic writer performer Jan Werich three doesn first probably store again So hellers little newspaper valuable guide Svtov literatura World Literature review foreign literature It published every months thirty years costs Ks The Union Soviet Writers publishes monthly Czech about Soviet litera quite glossy production color plates Owing interest young people endeavours three magazines different reasons particularly grabbed attention Student Life The Cultural Magazine International Union Students inches brand production published English glossy color cover glossy color center pages Its editorial board consists Pole Puerto Rican Czech Czech Pole technical editors there Pole layout Pole Czech Britons translate revise On reverse front cover color A Australian Contradictions A David Knaus A War Nicarargua Made USA The cover advertisement Polish Airlines In editorial Josef Skla President IUS explains their magazine already begun maturing Havana More The general rather Gorbachevian thinking openess though those words STUDENT LIFE wants something unique Not mouthpiece round table A Hyde Park where loitering tourists addressed It should chance genuine communication first truly international student magazine anyone cares Skla writes Student Life would pages sparkling controversy Nothing spared And I think should thereafter greeting other We would experience different exchange opinions One aimed playing tricks anyone Does sponsors advertisers example Polish Airlines should opportunity arise could become issue sparkling controversy Student Life first issue articles Eighteenth World Congress Philosophy Brighton UK Skateboarding Gender Sex report Turku International Student Week Finland Drugs Mean Death Drugs Students Students Streets E1 Salvador discussion young Dutch painters Be Open When I Was Student Mr Pierluigi Vagliani Director Youth Division UNESCO interview East German figureskater Katarina Witt article International Student Press Seminar Sofia Bulgaria short article about Czechoslovak student expedition hospital founded Dr Albert Schweitzer Lamar Gabon finally names addresses students wishing correspond other students Situace The student bulletin philosophy faculty Charles University absolutely looking production With staff about students print thirty pages laimer solely internal stands complete contrast seems Student Life Its spring issue essay The Capability Selfdefence survey What opinion establishment student bulletin News about student forum philosophy faculty reviews discussion Prague Stromovk still threatened about twelve other pieces Apparently Situace widespread approval expectanc least magazine present promising Partly partly inclination I managed music scene easily One friend years helps relatively magazine eight issues Rocknoviny Rocknewspaper I chance editors Despite perhaps account homemade appearance Rocknovin popular As informant section tural committee District Committee Socialist Youth Organization Prague District declares under title distributed charge Socialist Youth Movement SSM members interested concert goers It eight inches black white photocopy cover Its twenty pages typewritten handwrit titles printed grade newsprint The phrase intended internal gives editors certain indep endence regard magazines format content lyrics songs various Czech Rocknovin offers bands schedule upcoming performances interviews musicians reviews concerts location auction musical recording equipment Issue number advertisement cover Pink Floyd concert Stuttgart West Germany The editors enthusiastic range styles under heading A little eluctantly I accepted invitation Zahradni rather remote quarter Prague south heavy metal favorite styles I expect Czech heavy metal Brno could offer great improvement style When entered which Barel Rock about twenty about eight chairs became harder imagine first Czech heavy metal concert While house lights still sound music became increas ingly louder though hardly heavy metal decibels before appeared beards Greucho Marx glasses moustaches large plastic noses Their instruments accordian violins guitar bassoon flute At first I supposed Czech audience tolerant widely eclectic tastes But turned Barel Rock My disappointed because doesn least superb musician humorous lyrics between banter amused By contrast I dazzled Barel Rock range musical styles member extremely competent number instruments The bassoon passed around among three members guitars among almost switching violin presented obstacle least members Much Barel Rock humor various musical styles rarely become campy example their parody heavy metal although genre music itself tends towards They performed condensed version Dvoak opera Rusalka these times which minutes Once DBP I started singing however performed absolute respect composition It first I something opera performed music setting worked perfectly After concert I spoke leader Dr Jan Bo He veterinarian profession other members Others I heard butchers Dr Bo interest classical music especially Bohuslav Martinu which helps explain musical maturity Barel Rock Dr Boil invited Moravia October I eastward story Barel Rock I leave Peter I translations their excellent lyrics In spirit similar Barel Rock inspiring event Divadelni Theatrical It place Streleck ostrov Shooting Island On night their performance weather overcast Although performances start until there small accordian saxaphones snare contra bassist assistant other The wandered around stopped various spots ground stages acting companies Shortly before tickets played Auld Lang Syne while walking grounds shaking hands audience At eight clock entered grounds performers lined sides formed aisle which walked The spectators almost entirely young Czechs smartly dressed sense indistinguishable their peers Western European moved stage stage depending liked performance There three performances going My favorite group Tudu which about dozen members probably their twenties They saxophonists whose repertoire alternated mostly between Latin American music American gospel songs Their performance depiction Genesis which suspended actress branch about twelve above She angel actors below flapped wings prodding bamboo poles God white beard straw using watering funnel sprinkler shape hanger He light little candles The angel poetry troupe front audience Swing Low Sweet Chariot Will Circle Be Unbroken English Czech blues audience seemed At about crowd followed actor corner ground where emotional closing speech which hoped future better theatrical fairs climate which perform Then musicians audience gates I scrambled around after mounting increasingly muddy ground trying names addresses future meeting The performers still their props costumes I actors letters I eventually accept tickets heavy metal remote quarter Prague Brian Motorband began playing The audience larger I although American standards still relatively small albeit Brian Motorband The crowd perhaps because shortly after almost motionless Brian heavy rockers thrashed their music stage The consists young Converse All basketball shoes local equiva loudly colored length shorts beach jammies think called America The singer guitarist spent thrusting their heads forward shaking their medium manes crowd floor which started three pumping closed fists above By fifteen minutes later crowd dance floor increased about dozen Bria taken moment break between songs A combination boredom steady precisely unison rhythy desire eardrums future performances perhaps prematurely Another concert I attended Slovansk ostrov Slavonic Island Vltava right National Theater I already heard music coming there because I friends treated music gratis echoes buildings baroque church opposite their apartment This concert triple outdoors began The first strongly inspired sounded British Joy Division The combination intentionally dreary vocals hypnotically repetitive drums guitars remaining daylight robbed greater share audience attention But I audience which included large number young leather jackets which English Exploited Anarchy really Saint Vincent Vincent hulking fellow shaved apparently nature certificate mentally disturbed His performance which audience crowded stage divided parts Spray Bratislava played competen aggressive billy Vincent perform consisted friendly banter which audience grinning anticipation animal howling microphone which drove audience Although audience seemed looked freak seemed entirely supportive Vincent mocking Strangely managed bring people affection On other howling began sound unending Japanese I Vincent middle second We haven apparently painter Lastly parts Czech interview Milos Forman which appeared Svt obrazech August Its appearance discussion certain change attitude towards Forman perhaps other Czechoslovak artists The journalist Svt obrazech conducted interview New York which I ordinary The interview Valmont podle Forman Valmont according Forman began emphasizing Forman latest Valmont version Dangerous Liasons The following excerpts interesting Svt obrazech I Hair One Flew Cuckoo Nest Taking Off Ragtime Forman It strange In Soviet Union Amadeus Ragtime Cuckoo But Hair And Czechoslovakia other Hair And Amadeus I understand The Fireman Ba Horl panenko returned cinemas I think almost successful Hair Several films connected their times others When Amadeus premiered Alfa cinema Prague packed people And Cuckoo impact compared Hair Oscars Cuckoo fantastic impact But New York everywhere Now enormously successful Soviet Union I Moscow festival wanted screening At first I thought taking meeting dissidents Secret Suddenly I around stadium tuzhniki where hockey Fifteen thousand people watching I never experienced And members audience reacted exactly I feeling I sitting midst fifteen thousand Americans They understood every thing allusion People clever People together clever When hundred people probably wouldn spend minutes individually because after another would begin movie theater smarter They react sooner comprehend sooner excellent But there another picture I remember still Czechoslovakia artists council umleck6 Twenty greatest intellectuals writers theoreticians there deliver verdict which tried reach agreement written When people ether perceivers fantastic smart together thinkers organ complete disaster How discover One Flew Cuckoo Nest little which actually embryo success That story In Kirk Douglas Prague And throwing party I invited showing I think Loves Blonde jedn4 plavovlsky And party little wouldn I America I course He never So I myself2 obviously tpical blabbermouth About later package comes there From Michael Douglas Kirk Douglas wouldn I through conceivably So I through editor noted Czech translation J Kornk liked I began preparations And coincidence I together Kirk Douglas Los Angeles He looks You Czechs Do remember Prague I about And I Well I never I explained I never anything Mabe fling border pecked The final words interview secret there being prepared about Forman article doesn where As I there Friends point least event every momentum I forward writing greater detail about lesser known excellent artists In meantime I leave cartoons Vladimir Rencin which appeared Mlad September All The worst school fault Before I washcoom Masacyk shooting workers I returned Daddy Pukavec Rencin stock characters idiot Hind declaration VLADIMIR RENCIN You going undertake socialist pledge going learn You going learn Nothing fours first Russian Isn there provocation there Received Hanover