I was reading a newspaper article about Vaclav Havel´s funeral (1st prezident of the Czech Republic) and I don´t understand meaning of this sentence (the first part of it): “Yet his anything goes seemed slightly when compared to the rest of Europe, but this was because the playwright and his band of dissidents were amateurs.” Beforehand there is this sentence - “As the country´s first post-communist president he gave Prague a unique style - offbeat, Bohemian, free-and-easy.”
Could anyone tell me, what that means?
It appears to me that something has gone wrong with the first sentence, like some words have been accidentally omitted. It probably should read “Yet his anything goes seemed slightly when compared to the rest of Europe…”. In this case “anything goes” would modify the missing noun.
The other sentence means:
He was the country’s first president following the fall of communism
When he was president, he gave Prague a unique style
That style was offbeat, Bohemian and free-and-easy.
I have only really tried to explain the structure since you should be able to find the meanings of any problem words in the dictionary. However, if you are still stuck on any, please post back.