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When the Swedish Academy announced the literature prize in October, Seifert was in the hospital suffering from diabetes and a heart ailment. He has now returned home, but can move about only with the aid of a metal crutch. Too frail to travel, he will be represented at this week's Nobel ceremonies by Son Jaroslav and Daughter Jana. Although he is usually unwilling to be interviewed by Western journalists, Seifert received TIME Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald and Eastern Europe Correspondent John Moody in his comfortable, slightly threadbare second-floor apartment in Prague. The 90-min. interview took...
...revered Guru Nanak, contemptuously basking in foreign shelter in Western countries, have no reason for jubilation. I feel sad about the shame brought upon my Sikh countrymen by those traitors. They emptied their guns into someone who, with all her real or imagined power, was a small, frail old woman...
...sense, this is an unromantic, even radical film. The artist, it suggests, is also a functioning member of society. He need not be a diseased oyster or a frail hothouse plant or an emotional prairie fire that scorches the earth searching for truth. He must be both an observer of and a participant in the life of his family, his environment and traditions. And so, like any father, Monsieur can play favorites with his children, finding small pleasure in the weekly visits of his dutiful son, gasping for the breath of fresh life the mercurial Irène brings with...
...jumble of gravestones in Warsaw's Powazki Cemetery last Thursday. It was All Saints' Day, and thousands of Poles had crowded into the historic burial ground to light candles in memory of the dead. This year the solemn tradition had a special poignancy. The photograph of a frail, youthful man in clerical collar had been nailed to a tree near an unmarked plot that has become the unofficial monument to those who died in the months following the imposition of martial law in December 1981. The inscription beneath the picture read KILLED BY SECURITY FORCES. For the mourners...
...shyly introduced himself as Father Jerzy and asked if he could be of help. I had been wandering around the ground floor of the rectory of St. Stanislaw Kostka in Warsaw attempting to interview recipients of Western aid distributed by the Catholic Church. Jerzy Popieluszko, painfully frail and thin, introduced me to his parishioners, calming their fears about talking to a Western journalist. It was only a few months after the imposition of martial law, and the national spirit that had soared during the heyday of Solidarity had been crushed by Polish soldiers and police...