Word: polese
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In his inaugural speech to the Central Committee, Gorbachev avoided harsh rhetoric: he refrained from excoriating the U.S. and made clear his desire, if possible, to concentrate the nation's attention and responses on its massive and impacted domestic problems. At the same time, however, he had no good news...
But, as a pragmatic cosmopolitan, I would repeat the formulation I made in my February 25 letter--that "Black students at Harvard (and other colleges too) who have chosen cosmopolitan identities rather than ethnocentric ones will in the future perform their Black leadership requirements better...." I would also repeat my...
His image on Wheaties cereal boxes inspired a generation of '50s youngsters to eat the "breakfast of champions," and despite the intervening years, Bob Richards is still inspiring. A onetime minister, he earns his living on the motivational lecture circuit (and last year ran for President on the Populist Party...
The regime's attempts to intimidate the clergy stirred Primate Jozef Cardinal Glemp to declare last week that the church would "defend priests." The government's latest attacks, he said, "point to ideological struggle." Voicing even such restrained criticism was a departure for Glemp, who is widely considered by Poles...
The murder of Popieluszko, a popular and fervent supporter of the banned Solidarity labor union, and the subsequent arrest of the four Polish security officers, had presented the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski with its most formidable challenge since martial law was imposed in 1981. Jaruzelski's decision to prosecute...