Word: polish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Suddenly a young man shinnied up the sandstone column. Just below the royal Polish eagle that crowns the monument, he placed a camouflaged box containing a tape recorder. From its speaker emerged the voice of Zbigniew Bujak, 27, one of the union's most active underground leaders. Declared Bujak: "We will continue our struggle for freedom and the independence of our motherland." It was a pointed reminder that the people had not abandoned their demands for greater freedom, despite the recent liberation of some 1,200 detainees and a vague promise from Party Boss General Wojciech Jaruzelski that martial...
...delegations laid wreaths to the solemn beat of drums, several hundred people gathered around the new cross, praying, flashing V signs and singing their own modified version of the national anthem. It includes such defiant lines as "Lead us Walesa, from the coast to Silesia/ Push on to victory, Polish Solidarity." The police removed the cross the next three days...
...Ministers unspecified "special powers." It did not take long for Poles to see for themselves that little had changed. Before dawn on National Day, security forces destroyed a cross of evergreens and flowers that had been placed in Warsaw's Victory Square to honor Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, the Polish Primate who died last year. It was the fourth time that the authorities had swept away the cross. Later in the day, as special honor guards marched past the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Victory Square, squads of the ZOMO security forces, who have frequently been used to break...
...object: to improve the breed on both sides of the Atlantic. The animals, a stallion and a mare born in the Bronx Zoo and a mare from San Diego's zoo, are rare Przewalski's horses. Discovered in Mongolia a century ago by the Polish-born Russian army colonel for whom they are named, Equus przewalskii is the only truly wild, totally undomesticated horse still left on earth. The stocky beasts have big heads, thick, short manes, chocolate-brown legs and a fondness for friendly nipping, neighing and other forms of socializing. But unless there are more exchanges...
Occasionally, the major festivals display some enterprise. The Hollywood Bowl last week was the site of an unusual program of Polish music, including works by Stanislaw Moniuszko (the 19th century composer of the popular Polish national opera Halka) and Shostakovich, who was of Polish descent. That program, however, was performed by the visiting Warsaw Philharmonic. At Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony has responsibly programmed two new works it commissioned for its centennial last year. And at the Mann Music Center in Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Orchestra performed a piano concerto believed to have been written by Franz Liszt, and orchestrated by Tchaikovsky...