Word: polished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paintings of the present series, which will go on view next month at Manhattan's Midtown Gallery. The five reproduced on the following pages show the range and strangeness of his imaginings. ¶The Diver has as its setting a flooded rooftop on Pittsburgh's Polish Hill, with the Pennsylvania Railroad main line in the background. Key to the composition is the girl's arm, tenderly outstretched toward the skindiver. Koerner had in mind the sort of arduous wooing found in fairy tales, where the king sets a series of tasks for the princess' suitor...
...experience: never get on stage for too long with a child. But just as the triumph of Annie Sullivan's fierce and unsentimental love was burnished by her battle against the afflictions of Helen Keller, so the triumph of Anne Bancroft's stagecraft burgeons beside the improbable polish of her 13-year-old colleague, Patty Duke...
...took a while for the Polish intelligence service to react. Then discreet inquiries began to be made. The Yugoslavs reported that the Monats had never reached Belgrade. Austrian authorities professed total ignorance. Thoroughly alarmed at last, Poland sent hordes of agents converging on Vienna from Warsaw, London and Paris, ostensibly to attend the Communist Youth Festival there. They began prowling the cafes and clubs frequented by anti-Communist Polish emigrés. There was no trace of the colonel...
...entire operation during his 1958 tour of duty in Washington. Last week this educated guess proved correct. The story was broken from Vienna by the New York Times's Correspondent A. M. Rosenthal, who was recently expelled from Poland (TIME, Nov. 23) for "probing" too deeply into Polish affairs and was now free to report what he had not felt free to file at the time. At first, Monat's defection to the U.S. was flatly denied by the State Department, then officially confirmed...
...Wladyslaw Gomulka reacted swiftly by appointing tough Lieut. General Kazimierz Witaszewski deputy chief of staff in charge of army intelligence. A fiery pro-Stalinist who had supported the Russians in 1956 in their attempt to overthrow Gomulka himself, General Witaszewski might not be able to improve the quality of Polish espionage, but he could be counted upon to make the apparatus more escapeproof...