Word: polished
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...Chaffin, Gravois and Jody Flader '02, who plays Matthew's lost love, Sarah. These three, more so than the other capable cast members, keep the show flowing and allow the audience to follow plot and character development in a world with too much history. Though IBOC's text lacks polish, the sophisticated conception driving the story and the dexterity with which Ragozzino addresses the material shows promise...
...home. Danylo presided (as managing editor and later as editor in chief) over a massive five-volume Encyclopaedia of Ukraine, which he assembled, with loving, exhausting labor, between 1982 and 1993. He became a translator and champion of Ukrainian writing. He enlisted me sometimes in college to help him polish English versions of such beloved writers as Vasyl Stefanyk. He had taught me about the great Ukrainian national poet, Taras Shevchenko. (He also taught me some overly colorful Ukrainian phrases that I was stupid enough to repeat in mixed Ukrainian company, to his embarrassment and mine...
...America tells the story of a family of Polish immigrants who come to America in the 1870s. The protagonist, actor Maryna Zalewska, decides to simplify her life, moving with friends to California to start a farm...
...Pius IX, an oppressor of Jews in the mid-1800s, will. (The march toward canonization of another Pius--XII--has stalled in the face of renewed charges that he stood by silently during the Holocaust.) John Paul also plans to bestow sainthood on two women this year--the Polish nun Faustina Kowalska, who died in a Nazi concentration camp; and Katharine Drexel, an American socialite turned educator who dedicated her life to teaching poor blacks and Native Americans in the first half of the 1900s. And he has started his late friend Mother Teresa down the beatification path, waiving...
...certainly a logical extension of one man's efforts regarding the Jews and their state: first as a Polish archbishop helping draft the Vatican II language recognizing that the Jews did not kill Jesus, and then as the Pope who pushed through the Vatican's diplomatic recognition of Israel in 1993, making a state visit possible. (The Vatican's relations with the Palestinians have long been good...