Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until World War II, Rubinstein toured Poland occasionally, and long after he became a U.S. citizen, the Poles continued to claim him as their own ("He is the best," said one writer, "so he is a Pole"). But during the war, the Germans killed the family he had left in...
In his rooms, Rubinstein was besieged by young musicians, to whom he had become a legendary figure on records, and by old friends who remembered him from the old days. Repeatedly, the sight of friends or familiar landmarks reduced Rubinstein to tears. He played five concerts instead of the three...
All tourists are snobs of sorts, chiefly two: newness snobs and oldness snobs. Two well-traveled igth century U.S. writing men, Mark Twain and Henry James, stand like archsentinels at these two poles. Twain, the apostle of modernity, prized Italian railroads "more than Italy's hundred galleries of priceless...
The Napoleon known to history emerged with incredible rapidity. The small figure in his green chasseur's uniform and white waistcoat and breeches became a kind of miniature god of war who presided over incredible carnage without blinking. After the defeat at Moscow. Napoleon told Austria's Metternich...
Midnight came and passed with nothing discovered. Two days later a resident of the suburb, acting on an impulse, unearthed the treasure between two telephone poles at a depth of three inches. Hurrying to claim his $1,000, he arrived at the station in the midst of a swarm of...