Word: baranczak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This week, Stanislaw Baranczak finally got the news he--and Harvard--had been waiting for. The Polish government, after denying seven previous requests for a passport since 1978, gave the dissident poet permission to travel to the United States and take a three-year associate professorship of Slavic Languages and Literatures...
George G. Grabowicz, associate professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, said yesterday. "We are all very happy to hear the long-awaited news, but we are apprehensive as to the security of [Baranczak's] coming." Grabowicz said the release may be part of a government effort to keep control over other dissidents...
...Baranczak's release is very significant," Wiktor Weintraub, Jurzykowski Professor of Polish Language and Literature Emeritus, said yesterday. "Not only is he a specialist in literature, but he is also active politically, and will make an impact on both Polish and Western culture...
...four Polish experts spoke at a round table discussion yesterday, which they said they had planned hoping Baranczak would be present to join...
...published material that probably helped bring about the recent political upheavals there. The government allows some work to be published unofficially "to maintain its facade of independence," Jolanta Bak, a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature who did undergraduate work in Warsaw, said. Bak was a member of Baranczak's Committee for Social Self-Defense...