Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The speaker was Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy, a much-talked-about contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960. In a speech to a Jefferson-Jackson Day fund-raising dinner in Omaha, he called on the U.S. to help Communist Poland maintain its independence by granting the Poles'...
"We are known for our capacity to make sacrifices and to die a brave death," he told his flock last November in his first public sermon after being released by the Communists. "Poles know how to die magnificently. But, my dear ones, Poles must learn to work magnificently. When one...
Historically, the Roman Catholic Church is identified with nationalism in Poland as it is in few other countries; Poland became Catholic to avoid being gobbled up. When the pagan Polish ruler Mieszko I was attacked A.D. 963 by Saxon Warlord Count Wichman, Mieszko cannily guessed that this early German Drang...
Typically, in the industrial city of Nowo Huta, originally planned as a model Socialist town without a house of worship, the government has now permitted a church to be begun. Everywhere the monotony of dusty village life is once again relieved by bright processions and flower-banked shrines on religious...
Despite the joy most Poles take in their religion, the country has been sliding down toward the doldrums, after the first few heady months following the October coup. The main trouble is economic; as one worker put it last week: "Gomulka kicked out the Russians and brought back the church...