Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...High might as well have stayed inside the locker room and popped sits for 48 minutes than bother showing its colors on the same Tupper Field as the Marian Knights. Granted, Catholics had a rich tradition being from South Bend-Notre Dame-Golden Dome-Fightin' Irish-Fraternal Order of Polish Falcons, Nest No. 9 country; but still, that can't be the only reason...
Likewise, Poles visiting Bulgaria dispose of Polish raincoats, watches and small manufactured items; while there, they stock up on sheepskin coats and rose-petal oil, which move fast on the streets back in Warsaw or Lodz. East Europeans who visit the Soviet Union commonly report, as does one Pole: "The Russians are literally willing to buy the shirt off your back." Poles, Czechs and East Germans return freighted with Russian cameras and fur caps for the local market. Vacationing Hungarians find that their most reliable moneymaker is their salami...
...Henri Gaudier, a gifted French sculptor who, having emigrated to London, became a central figure in the avant-garde before being killed in World War I at the age of 24. Russell's theme is the long, violent and platonic love affair between Gaudier and a neurotic Polish writer almost twice his age, Sophie Brzeska, whose name he joined to his. Hampered by poverty, his life truncated at a moment when most artists are only beginning to work, Gaudier-Brzeska did not produce a large body of sculpture; but he was an indefatigable letter writer, and much...
...Yiddish writer read an essay and his latest short story--a spare and gentle account of an American Jew's visit to his Polish parents--answered questions, and expounded an aesthetic theory in which "the essence of fiction is the study of character and individuality...
...must originate in a state of emotional vortex and their aim, according to Pound was to establish what we consider to be characteristic in the in the consciousness and form content of our time. Henri Gaudier left his established family when they banned his Platonic love. Sophie Brzeska--a Polish writer twice his age--from their estate. He then adopted her name and lived with her until his death though their relationship was never consummated. Unrecognized during his life he suffered perpetual ridicule and abuse at the hands of fellow Bohemians, and lived in constant penury until his death...