Word: krzysztof
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...with their worsening lot, 600 Bydgoszcz drivers walked off the job early last week. Krzysztof Wojt, a Communist Party member and leader of the local official transport union, headed daylong negotiations with local authorities. Although they were seeking to double their pay, from 21 cents to 40 cents an hour, the drivers finally accepted a compromise offer of 34 cents and went back to work...
...churches have generated something of an architectural renaissance. Drab city centers and run-down villages are sprouting postmodern chapels, delicate Oriental bell towers and high-tech confections of steel girders and stained glass. Not all are distinctive, but Krzysztof Chwalibog, deputy chairman of the Association of Polish Architects in Warsaw, contends, "This is bringing back good design to Poland." Good workmanship too. Unlike secular Polish buildings, which seem to sag and crack even before completion, most churches are being built to last. The same workmen who rarely worry about right angles for the state are lavishing care on ecclesiastical projects...
...20th century, says Stern, "is one of the richest periods in musical creativity." A discriminating advocate of contemporary violin music who has given premieres of concertos by William Schuman, George Rochberg and Krzysztof Penderecki, Stern has had a privileged view of modern musical history; in June he will premiere a work by Britain's iconoclastic Peter Maxwell Davies in Scotland. The phantasmagorical Dutilleux concerto was commissioned by Radio France in celebration of Stern's 60th birthday almost six years ago ("He had problems about coming to an end," says Stern, explaining the delay) and was first performed in Paris last...
Significant premieres by two of today's leading composers might help to change that attitude, however. In Washington two weeks ago, Mstislav Rostropovich led the National Symphony Orchestra in the eight completed movements of Krzysztof Penderecki's Polish Requiem, a work in progress for vocal quartet and chorus that promises to be a major statement, both musically and politically, when it is finished some time next year. And last week in Paris, Seiji Ozawa presided over the world premiere of Olivier Messiaen's first opera, Saint François d'Assise, which is clearly intended...
...brick building at the University of Lodz, eleven student strike leaders and four government negotiators faced each other over two green cloth-covered tables. On one wall hung a six-foot white paper cross; on the others posters bearing slogans of protest and defiance. At 4 p.m. Sociology Student Krzysztof Pakulski began to read a complicated agreement that had been hammered out and haggled over during two weeks of often hot-tempered negotiations, and which now signaled the end of a spreading student strike. When the accord was signed an hour later, triumphant cheers erupted from the 800 students assembled...