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Dubcek and
Goldstucker tested the boundaries of Dubcek s devotion to freedom of the press when he appeared on a television interview as the new head of the union.
Control Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, " Action Plan of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( Prague, April 1968 )" in Dubcek s Blueprint for Freedom: His original documents leading to the invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Dubcek and freedom
Despite the official government statement that allowed for freedom of the press, this was the first trial of whether or not Dubcek was serious about reforms.

Dubcek and .
In 1968, I was glad at the political liberalism of the Dubcek Prague Spring, but was very critical of the Third Way they pursued in economics.
After Dubcek assumed power, however, the scholar Eduard Goldstucker became the chairman of the union and thus editor-in-chief of the paper.
Goldstucker suffered no repercussions, and Dubcek instead began to build a sense of trust among the media, the government, and the citizens.
* Hope Dies Last The Autobiography of Alexander Dubcek by Alexander Dubcek ( Author ), Jiří Hochman ( Editor, Translator ), Kodansha Europe ( 1993 ), ISBN 1-56836-000-2.
That same year he published the play Recitazione della controversia liparitana dedicata ad A. D., dedicated to Alexander Dubcek.
Since then, she has made appearances in several movies, starred as Dixie Glick in the series Primetime Glick and the movie Jiminy Glick in Lalawood, and had a recurring role as the trashy Vicki Dubcek on 3rd Rock from the Sun, which earned Hooks an Emmy Award nomination.
Later in his life, Thorolf Rafto got, particularly, supportive of the liberal ideas of the Czechoslovak reformists such as Alexander Dubcek and Jiri Hajek.
In the series finale, Harry revealed that he had a long-lasting secret relationship with Mrs. Dubcek.
In the season six two-part episode " Dick'll Take Manhattan ", in which Dick, Harry and Sally enter into an alternate universe, Harry is employed as the President of NBC, while Mrs. Dubcek is his secretary.

and s
The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry s image and help mediate labor disputes.
The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences defines psychological altruism as " a motivational state with the goal of increasing another s welfare ".
Psychological altruism is contrasted with psychological egoism, which refers to the motivation to increase one s own welfare.
One way is a sincere expression of Christian love, " motivated by a powerful feeling of security, strength, and inner salvation, of the invincible fullness of one s own life and existence ".
Another way is merely " one of the many modern substitutes for love, ... nothing but the urge to turn away from oneself and to lose oneself in other people s business.
* David Firestone-When Romney s Reach Exceeds His Grasp-Mitt Romney quotes the song
" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.
George Wittkowsky argued that Swift s main target in A Modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic ills.
In response, Swift s Modest Proposal was " a burlesque of projects concerning the poor ", that were in vogue during the early 18th century.
Critics differ about Swift s intentions in using this faux-mathematical philosophy.
Charles K. Smith argues that Swift s rhetorical style persuades the reader to detest the speaker and pity the Irish.
Swift s specific strategy is twofold, using a " trap " to create sympathy for the Irish and a dislike of the narrator who, in the span of one sentence, " details vividly and with rhetorical emphasis the grinding poverty " but feels emotion solely for members of his own class.
Swift s use of gripping details of poverty and his narrator s cool approach towards them create " two opposing points of view " that " alienate the reader, perhaps unconsciously, from a narrator who can view with ' melancholy ' detachment a subject that Swift has directed us, rhetorically, to see in a much less detached way.
Once the children have been commodified, Swift s rhetoric can easily turn " people into animals, then meat, and from meat, logically, into tonnage worth a price per pound ".
Swift uses the proposer s serious tone to highlight the absurdity of his proposal.
In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, text book approved order of argument from Swift s time ( which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ).
James Johnson argued that A Modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by Tertullian s Apology: a satirical attack against early Roman persecution of Christianity.
Johnson notes Swift s obvious affinity for Tertullian and the bold stylistic and structural similarities between the works A Modest Proposal and Apology.
He reminds readers that " there is a gap between the narrator s meaning and the text s, and that a moral-political argument is being carried out by means of parody ".

and relaxation
Moscow then had Genden appointed as the Prime Minister ( chairman of the Assembly of People's Commissaries ) on July 2, 1932 to oversee execution of “ New Turn ” policy, a relaxation of communist economic principles closely modeled on Vladimir Lenin s New Economic Policy in the USSR.
There are a variety of ways to desensitize one s hypersensitivity, from relaxation to numbing the mouth and throat to training your soft palate to get used to being touched.
Concerns were also raised by former hospital superintendent, Dr Robert Crawford, about the change the development might have on the village s brand of “ slow tourism and relaxation, not wet n wild .”
Her favorite form of relaxation is working her plot in Seattle s Judkins P-Patch.
Scientologists called McPherson s family to say that she had died of meningitis or a blood clot on December 5, 1995 while at Fort Murray for “ rest and relaxation ”.

and censorship
The Emperor pressured Eritrea s elected chief executive to resign, made Amharic the official language in place of Arabic and Tigrinya, terminated the use of the Eritrean flag, imposed censorship, and moved many businesses out of Eritrea.
" This quote illustrates Orwell s understanding of how the past can influence both ideology and politics, offers a counterpoint as to why protecting the scholarly practice of history is important, and describes the extreme effects of state-sponsored censorship.
; Chew toy: From time to time, a spammer surfaces in the group, typically ranting about how spam control activities, such as blacklisting, amount to censorship and violate that spammer s right to free speech.
Although this sort of presentation was a famous entertaining form of Lisbon s Carnival, enjoying popular support and often with strong intervening characters, the censorship regulation in 1927 would strongly but irreversibly contribute to the extinction of this type of show.
In Russia censorship meant that many of Tolstoy s non-fiction works in the 1880s and 1890s were published abroad first, either in Russian or in translation, delaying the author's influence in his country of birth.
This prohibition is necessary because, as Milton recognized in Areopagitica, to threaten censorship prior to publication would have a chilling effect on expression and speech, or in Milton s view, it would interfere with the pursuit of truth as it relates to a providential plan.
However, historians argue that Pombal s " enlightenment ," while far-reaching, was primarily a mechanism for enhancing autocracy at the expense of individual liberty and especially an apparatus for crushing opposition, suppressing criticism, and furthering colonial economic exploitation as well as intensifying print censorship and consolidating personal control and profit.
However, rather than wait to surveil only authors who had violated the censorship regulations, Third Section agents preferred to surveil certain authors and then, once suspicious activity was spotted, reject that author s material even if it had passed the censors.
However little success the Third Section s modest propaganda efforts met in foreign presses, it had even less success domestically: rather than print pro-Nicholas propaganda of their own to improve Russians opinions of the Tsar, the Third Section resorted to pushing even broader censorship of Russian periodicals, threatening in 1848 to punish publishers not only for running seditious articles but even if the publication s “ tone and tendency ” was not positive enough.
He launched a campaign against the censorship board, and for the next few years continued to exhibit films at the Film-makers Cinemathèque, the Jewish Museum, and the Gallery of Modern Art.
In 1934, one year after Hitler s Machtergreifung, Welk, under the pseudonym Thomas Trimm, wrote an open letter in the Grüne Post titled Auf ein Wort, Herr Minister, in which he criticised Nazi press censorship under Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels.
He has, in his own words, ‘ attained a certain amount of fame and has been active in the media, contributing to cultural and political debates, such as the consequences of the war in Iraq and taking part in a televised debate on censorship alongside the celebrated Arab poets Mahmoud Darwish and Adunis.
The incoming warden ratified the choice and, with a handshake, gave Rideau freedom from censorship and thus created the nation s only uncensored prison publication.
They have always been great meetings places for musicians, researchers and journalists and I ve always felt that understanding the motivations behind and the mechanisms of censorship have been in focus — not just condemning censorship.
In the early 1970 s and 80 s, music censorship expanded from songs to music videos.
One of the earliest examples of censorship of music on the radio is from the 1940 s.
Under L Estrange, the antennae of state censorship prickled at the very mention of the monarch and he famously objected to the following lines from Milton s Paradise Lost, Book I:
After 1976, the then Minister for Post and Telecommunications, Conor Cruise O ' Brien, a Labour Party minister in the Fine Gael / Labour coalition, strengthened Jack Lynch s original 1971 Section 31 censorship directive banning members of the IRA or its political wing Sinn Féin from the airwaves.
The repressions and upheavals of 1848 resulted in massive censorship of literature, which did not bode well for Baudelaire s perhaps most famous work, Les Fleurs du Mal.

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