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...“[Former president] Václav Havel was an inspiration, he opened my mind to art, he was an advocate for culture in general, but was quite visionary about what Prague could be and its position as a cultural...
...“He was Tomáš, or Tomik, Sträussler.” He was to become Sir Tom Stoppard, OM CBE FRSL. His medic father, Eugen Sträussler, would die fleeing the Fall of Singapore....
...Here, Halik, an intellectual as much as a prelate, and a former adviser to the late Czech president Václav Havel, throws in a quotation from Heidegger: “The frantic abolition of all distances brings no nearness...
...But Tomas Sedlacek’s Economics of Good and Evil, an unlikely bestseller when it was published in Czech in 2009, is none of these things....
...It certainly isn’t Vaclav Havel, his predecessor as Czech president (check out the scornful reference to “philosopher-king ambitions” in Klaus’s op-ed for the FT on Wednesday)....
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