Word: baranczak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Five years ago, Stanislaw Baranczak, associate professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and 13 other Polish scholars banded together to form what would become Poland's best-known dissident organization, the Workers' Self-Defense Committee...
...Baranczak said yesterday that KOR-members had felt for several months that the group should be dissolved and added that "all the goals we had are now being fulfilled by Solidarity...
...even though he believes that Solidarity will continue to provide the same services that KOR did, Baranczak added, "It's a sad feeling, of course, to see the committee end. They were the best five years of my life--we all really felt as though we were doing something useful...
...Baranczak said that while several of the KOR members have already or will assume positions with Solidarity now that KOR has folded, he himself will take no official post with the union. He added, however, that he has "very strong contacts with a branch of Solidarity" in his hometown of Poznan and will continue to communicate with members of the union...
Finally, More than three years after he had accepted a teaching position at Harvard. Polish dissident scholar Stanislaw Baranczak arrived in Cambridge this week. Polish authorities last month granted him a passport after having rejected seven previous applications. "There was a rumor they would cancel all the flights," the 34-year-old poet said after arriving here. "Almost to the last minute we weren't sure if everything would go all right," he added. But they did, and Baranczak will likely begin teaching next fall as part of his three-year associate professorship...