Havel the Dissident: A Legacy Worth Declaring (crooksandliars)
_Former Leader Havel addresses a European cultural congress around the
financial aspects of culture
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On the warm evening in 1991, a friend and that i found an out-of-the-way café in
that old a part of Prague. Two males with blank expressions was outdoors. The
interior was dim and close, with room for just eight or nine tables. The area
was almost empty. Only a sleepy waitress, a bartenders sprucing up glasses, along with a
single patron who sitting alone consuming wine and chain-cigarette smoking.
The Leader of Czechoslovakia wasn’t looking at official papers. He was
reading through a magazine, a amazingly not-Presidential act to the American eyes. My
companion, a neoconservative Condition Department official, already respected him
for repel and beating a Communist condition. He’d impressed me by getting a
writer’s sensibility as well as an interest in true subterranean culture to his role
as mind of condition.
Václav Havel even attempted to appoint Frank Zappa as his Minister of Culture.
“We are not rock music artists,” Zappa told a reporter in the sixties. “We are
electronic social employees.” The Condition Department wouldn’t let Zappa assume the
publish, but Havel had made his indicate the Czech public by providing this
apparatchik’s position towards the composer of tunes …
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