Word: grosse
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Seven months have passed since former Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 announced his intention to step down from his post. But Smith said that he did not believe the progress of the search for Gross’ permanent replacement had been unduly slow...
...Last month, he said he hoped that the news of the appointment would come soon, pointing to the relief he has witnessed in his predecessor Gross, a man now free of the deanship’s responsibilities...
...Poland's Catholic Church, blamed by Gross for doing nothing to stem the wave of post-war anti-Semitism, has lashed out at the book. The Krakow archbishop and close associate of the late Pope John Paul II, Stanislaw Dziwisz, has written a letter to the Catholic ZNAK publishing house, saying that it should not have published the book. A publishing house should "propagate historical truth," not "awake anti-Polish and anti-Semitic demons," said the archbishop. Polish prosecutors are considering charging Gross with slandering the Polish nation...
...Gross, a Princeton professor who left Poland in 1969, having been expelled from college the previous year during an anti-Semitic purge of 1968 student dissidents, has returned to confront the country of his birth with some uncomfortable truths...
...Early in the proceedings, about a dozen young people demonstratively left the room shouting "Shame!" and "Enough with slandering Poland!" Gross remained calm and quiet. "I speak about things that have been known but have not yet been put in such a clear, sharp and unambiguous way," he said. "It's difficult because we are talking about the time that has shaped our identity, who we think...