Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, 30 determined young Poles probed deep for the weak spot in Russia's hitherto impregnable Communist empire. No plotters, and meaning to be peaceable, they were asking questions: How much farther can Poland go on the road to democratization without risking a Soviet crackdown? Can the Polish Communist Party slow down the momentum of Poland's drive for complete national independence? The answers could also spell out the end of Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe, and a formidable reduction of Soviet power itself...
...provided they could nominate some of the "approved alternates." Similar groups among factory workers and peasants-most prominent in the fight for liberalizing the tyranny-are taking the same line. Though their chosen candidates might have to be Communists, they wanted to make sure that they were also patriotically Polish. For the moment, they were not asking more...
...theater without sacrificing admirably high standards. The quality is, although the Workshop hates the word, usually professional. Indeed the only real complaint one can make about the Workshop's productions is that they conspicuously employ as stars and director several students already well established in the HDC, thus assuring polish but slightly displacing the idea of the Workshop designed to find and train new faces. But minor complaints cannot obscure the distinction of the Workshop's Emperor Jones and The Purification...
...trying to emulate heavy-handed Soviet official art, Communist (and Unreconstructed Stalinist) Rivera too often turned out work that, in years gone by, he could have painted with his toes. His versions of Polish bricklayers rebuilding Warsaw and of collective brigades clearing ice from a waterfront in Czechoslovakia are drab and hackneyed. Like his politics. much of his new work bears the overwhelming burden of the Communist line...
...EUROPE from U.S. are rising sharply. U.S. licenses for future exports to Communist Europe neared $10 million in third quarter, more than double the preceding quarter. Imports from area are running at annual rate of $66 million, more than $10 million ahead of 1955. Reason: U.S. is buying more Polish hams, benzene, Russian furs, platinum...