Word: polish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work on the Thinking Room of KOMO's new studio building. Immediately before he gives birth to a script, the writer will be confined in the Thinking Room for appropriate mood-building. KOMO's President O. W. Fisher explains enthusiastically: "Suppose we have a program about Polish refugees being sent back to Poland. The writer will sit in this room, lighted in a blue-greenish color. The room will be cold. We'll have Polish folks songs playing. On the screen will be a picture of refugees in a boxcar. There'll be an odor...
...first question to be settled is the need of Polish, Austrian, Chinese, and Greek students for this food. Facts show the tragic condition of University-attendants in these countries; on the whole they eat one-third of what an American college student consumes during the year. Next, what frame of mind are Americans seeking to instill in European students who are never too hungry to weight the bread before them alongside the future of their country or what they believe in? Is simple, vocal gratitude the sole aim of the effort? Does the American mentality ignore the psychology of charity...
...record companies and their publicity departments might polish their buttons before making any comparisons with the Ivy League album. Despite its limited production, it sells for little more than the domestic record, and the band's records--put out by a company which calls itself Trans-Radio--are superior to Victor or Columbia efforts all the way down to the good-looking album itself...
Hoare's book is in spots awkwardly written and, indeed, reads more like a diplomat's memoranda than a historian's account. The occasional unhappy phrasing and general lack of literary polish, however, is not conspicuous in a work such as this, and should not annoy students of modern Spain, for whom it should be required reading...
...born 53 years ago in the Dalmatian town of Spalato (now the Yugoslav town of Split) but spent his childhood in Lvov. His father was a Polish surgeon in the Austrian Army...