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...DIED. KAZIMIERZ DEJMEK, 78, Polish stage director and political dissident; in Warsaw. Born in what was then the Polish city of Kovle (now in Ukraine), Dejmek staged plays that strongly criticized the Communist government. His most famous work was a 1968 production of Adam Mickiewicz's Dziady (Forefathers), which led to mass student protests after it was shut down by the government...
Approval for Baranczak's departure had reportedly been delayed for some time because of bureaucratic red tape at the ministry and at Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan, where Baranczak teaches. Both have granted him three-year leaves-of-absence, his mother said...
...Poles in general-have found that it is possible to live with Gierek's moderate regime. Stage Director Kazimierz Dej-mek has returned from exile and is again in favor; he was disgraced in 1968 for putting on a heavily anti-Russian production of Patriot-Poet Adam Mickiewicz's 19th century play Dziady, which included the line "The only things Moscow sends us are jackasses, idiots and spies." Writer Stefan Kisie-lewski, who was severely beaten in 1968 for calling the government "a dictatorship of dimwits," has been allowed under Gierek to travel abroad. Of the 939 books...
...protests were originally ignited by the government's closing of Dziady, an anti-Czarist drama by Adam Mickiewicz (TIME, March 8), but they soon broadened into general dissatisfaction with Gomulka's Soviet-style rule. Spreading from Warsaw, unrest and demonstrations broke out in eight other cities. Students who had started by chanting "Dziady!" were soon crying "Gestapo!" at police and cheering the generalized thaw in Czechoslovakia...
Though Dziady, written by Poet Adam Mickiewicz in 1832, has long been a staple of study in nearly every Polish high school, its appearance on the Warsaw stage a few weeks ago caused an uproar. When audiences laughed too loudly at the anti-Russian lines, the government's censors closed down the whole production. In recent weeks they have also closed two other plays and kept from circulation the most promising Polish movie of the year, a surrealistic comedy on politics called Hands Up. Also kept from circulation was Critic Janusz Szpotanski, 34, author of a musical satire...