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Three weeks ago a small group of Harvard students demonstrated outside Harvard Hall, where a league speaker criticized the Independent Polish labor union Solidarity because of what he called its ties to Western Imperialism...
...some things marvelously over here." Sir Roy quickly points out. "You've really got a polish on popular culture that we have not. When I was watching the Thanksgiving parade on television. I decided we couldn't do that kind of thing in Britain, we don't have the flair. We have a few drum majorettes, but they look very very amateurish and unsophisticated compared with yours...
...Verdi called for in the score. Elsewhere, Pavarotti's eyes clung to the safety of the prompter's box and the conductor's baton, leaving most of the acting to Soprano Margaret Price (battling a bronchial infection but singing well nonetheless) and Stefania Toczyska, a sultry Polish mezzo and a star of the future, whose Amneris blazed with passionate fury...
Levi's extraordinary memory and a chameleonic talent for impersonation enable him to evade capture for a while. When the Germans do catch him, he is sent to the same Polish death camp where his child has been killed and his wife is dying. Her final moments permanently change Levi's life: "He understood everything now. He looked past the chimneys at the dull sun. It was at its midway point. Noon. Poland's winter. 1944. He was to remember it as his last sane moment...
...emergence of Pilsudski and the revival of Polish Independence Day seem to reflect a desire by the beleaguered government of Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski to seek more popular backing by displaying an independence, if only symbolic, from the Soviet Union. The government did not even object last week when the Solidarity trade union named a shipyard in Gdansk after Pilsudski. The irony was palpable: Solidarity had been founded in another shipyard not far away, one that was named for Vladimir Lenin, the father of the Soviet state and a bitter enemy of Jozef Pilsudski...