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Djilas

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Dji·las  (jläs), Milovan 1911-1995.
Yugoslavian writer and politician who was a prominent member of Tito's resistance movement during World War II and later held high government and Communist Party positions before his dismissal in 1954 for criticizing the regime.

Djilas [ˈdʒiːlɑːs]
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(Biographies / Djilas, Milovan (1911-1995) M, Yugoslav, POLITICS: politician, WRITING: writer) Milovan. 1911-95, Yugoslav politician and writer; vice president (1953-54): imprisoned (1956-61, 1962-66) for his criticism of the communist system


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Quoted in Milovan Djilas, Conversations with Stalin (New York Harcourt Brace, 1962), pp.
So perhaps it's not surprising that Manuel Herrera immediately accepted the part of Tommy Djilas in Stroman's revival of The Music Man when she offered it to him last spring.
At one level it is the story of the left-wing sympathizer savaged by the very system he tries to support, a tale familiar from the writings of Orwell, Koestler, Djilas and many others.
 
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