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Yesterday, however, Baranczak was told by an official of the Polish Ministry of Education that his eighth appeal had been successful, and he picked up the passport at the Ministry's local office, his mother said through a translator...
After more than three years of waiting, Polish dissident scholar Stanislaw Baranczak yesterday received his government's permission to travel to the United States and accept a three-year teaching post at Harvard...
Fanger said no specific plans have been made for Baranczak's work here once he arrives, but it is presumed that he will begin teaching next fall. Since September 1978, Baranczak has been listed in University catalogues as instructing Polish language and literature classes and occupying a Boylston Hall office...
...glad to hear this news. This had been dragging on for so long and had become a nightmare," Wiktor Weintraub, Jurzykowski Professor of Polish Languages and Literatures Emeritus, said last night...
...developed subsidiary characters: an old cameraman who has seen it all; Mateusz's exwife, declining into drunkenness; a veteran moviemaker, prize-laden and softly cynical. All are witnesses to history, shedding light on the way large issues affect little lives. At this time, when the inner contradictions of Polish Communism are once again spread out for the world to see, theirs is testimony that should be heard...