The Nation, May 7th, 1990
In 1921, at the age of 31, Capek joined the Prague newspaper Lidove noviny, and for the rest of his life he channeled enormous amounts of work through its pages. He was made art director of the National Art Theater in Prague. He befriended the President of Czechoslovakia, T.G. Masaryk, and became a public man, one of those who tell the time but have none. It is a story that, to President Vaclav Havel's clear discomfort, has repeated itself in 1990.
A decade passed. Capek had written some short stories of worth, reams of journalistic copy, hagiography addressed to his beloved Masaryk and tra...
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