Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout their country's heartbreaking history of being partitioned, conquered, occupied and finally reduced to a satellite, the Poles have clung tenaciously to the Roman Catholic Church, not only as their faith, but also as the most enduring symbol of their fervent nationalism. Almost the first thing that Communist...
The northerly orbit permits Explorer IV to report more fully on cosmic rays, which vary in intensity from the poles to the equator. But the satellite got less launching throw (205 m.p.h. less than Explorer III) from the west-to-east turning of the earth.
At Brasilia Niemeyer must still design theaters, stations, airport buildings, must approve every private venture, find materials, supervise all projects. For the city's 3,000-seat cathedral, he plans a tepee of concrete poles 220 ft. high, sheathed in translucent plastic and stained glass. "Brasilia," says Niemeyer, "begins...
I condemn you, who have made me an orphan. You attack the logic of religion and laugh, at cocktail parties, over totem poles and pillars. You dismiss mystics as paranoids and prophets as crackpots. You pride yourselves as Men of Logic when your understanding is mechanical. In your anxiety to...
For Wladyslaw Gomulka, though he has a long Communist career of knuckling under, this was a humiliating concession, but, if he wanted to survive, Gomulka would almost certainly have to make far greater and more humiliating concessions in the future. The consensus was that Nikita Khrushchev was unlikely to rest...