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...naturally been haunted by this situation, its parallels with the past, as well as its differences." For the cover she culled through stacks of files in TIME'S library, helping to round out the story's political and historical background. Kohan normally covers Religion for TIME. But he speaks Polish (and Russian) and has visited both countries three times in the past five years. For a month in 1979 he studied Polish language and culture at Jagiellonian University in Cracow. This year he spent five weeks reporting from Moscow for our special edition on the Soviet Union. For this week...
said a prominent Polish émigré in London last week. Indeed, the father of modern Communism would have been astounded by the spectacle: a socialist country whose ports, factories and mills were crippled by an industrial revolt of its own angry workers; a Communist Party leader abjectly confessing his regime's economic failure and dependence on capitalist banking consortiums for lifesaving loans. Most incredible of all to the man who contemptuously dismissed religion as "the opiate of the people" would have...
...week's end, the official Polish news agency announced that a tentative settlement with the shipyard workers had fallen through after a few hours. Workers in Gdansk, however, claimed to have ended their strike after winning a $50 pay raise; they said they would continue to occupy the shipyard through the weekend in solidarity with strikers elsewhere...
...never called forth any verse more memorable than the sort of decoratively obsequious doggerel that a well-educated butler might compose. The most enduringly dreadful lines were penned by the spellbound and earnest Alfred Austin in the late 19th century. Austin, author of "Leszko the Bastard, a Tale of Polish Grief," auditioned for the laureate's post with a marvelously stupefying couplet on the illness of the Prince of Wales: "Across the wires the electric message came:/ 'He is no better. He is much the same.' " Occasional verse itself, poetry on demand, almost always leads to things...
...media. But he was speaking to people who remembered his brothers, who understood his place in the context of history and of American liberalism, who had watched his humiliating campaign. On the stump, however, Kennedy was perceived not only as irresponsible--the tarnish of Chappaquiddick seems resistant to the polish of time and resilient to the force of reason--but also personally weak. In short, though the polls show many Democrats agree with him, he was unable to best a spectacularly unsuccessful president...