Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poznan last week, a Polish farmer -i dug deep into his pocket to pull out a roll of dog-eared but treasured U.S. greenbacks. "If it's dollars you want," he said, "I've got them." Others like him cheerfully proffered their savings in zlotys in a vain effort to buy for themselves some of the items laid out in a mouth-watering display of U.S. consumer goods at the first U.S. exhibit to appear at Communist Poland's annual International Trade Fair. To hold back the crowds, the exhibit had to be closed briefly every...
...think anyone like us could ever have a house like that?" a Polish housewife asked her husband as they stood fn Poznan gazing wistfully at a snug, gadget-filled house typical of middle-income U.S. suburbia. "Not in a thousand years!" came the answer from another gawper near by. "And even if they let you have it, the housing authorities would jam two other families in with...
...tung's "secret" speeches propounding the heretical notion that there can be "contradictions" between a Communist government and its people (TIME. May 27), Western experts have been debating whether or not Red China's boss was trying to assert ideological independence of Moscow. Last week, as Polish Communists began to leak quotations from his pronouncements, it became apparent that Chairman Mao was putting himself on a par not just with Khrushchev but with the prophets of Marxism. "Marx and Engels." Mao had said with bland Oriental condescension, "did not know about these problems . . . Lenin mentioned them...
...redhead who appears as a flaming, enigmatic image throughout Munch's work was a young Norwegian girl named Dagney Juell. She was Munch's model in Berlin before she moved over to live with Swedish Dramatist August Strindberg, finally married the best friend of both men, Polish Poet Stanislas Przybyszewski. One of Munch's most powerful paintings of the redhead was Jeatiousy, in which he depicted her as a salacious wanton, with an enigmatic, glowering father at left. Between the two, man-depicted as Poet Przybyszewski-is held transfixed in agonized suspension. Even more ruthless is Munch...
...trouble with the college generation of the first quarter-century was that it was lost, the trouble with ours is that it isn't. Today's young men and women seem intent, if upon anything at all, on preserving their air of absolute, rightness, polish, and balance, of belonging to the corporate body of the Shoe and the Sophisticated...