Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MOLIERE is one of those playwrightes who, like Wilde and Shaw, delight us with their wit and surface polish rather than any deep probing into the darker recesses of human nature. His plays give the impression of following some ideal of classical form which, however, is never allowed to choke off a good opportunity for laughter or propaganda, for horseplay, music or flouncing epicene behavior. The words dance in intricate patterns of couplets and sextets; the uncomplicated nature of each character is pinned down in his opening lines and does not go off in any unpredictable direction for the rest...
...racial stereotypes that salt the language. Yet sometimes they add a bit of savor. Are "French leave" and "Indian giver" to be expurgated? And what Bowdler at a performance of Hamlet will rise in protest when Horatio says, "He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice"? Should that be "Polish persons...
...survived 13 Greek Prime Ministers," Makarios joked to aides recently. "I hope to survive the 14th." Last week Makarios utilized some well-tested survival techniques. Besides rallying popular support, the archbishop stalled by not making a formal reply to Athens. Meanwhile, he maneuvered for help. Both the Soviet and Polish press criticized the idea of outside forces interfering with the internal decisions of Cyprus. Moscow apparently connects the Cyprus crisis with a recent agreement between the U.S. and Greece that allows dependents of men serving with the Sixth Fleet to be based around Athens. Moscow fears that Greece and Turkey...
Edward Gierek is allowing a revival of home-grown striptease; the art has for years been practiced almost exclusively by imported dancers in bars catering to Western tourists. In a startling departure, the state entertainment agency recently placed an ad in the big party daily inviting attractive young Polish women of 22 or under to report to Warsaw's Palace of Culture to try out for jobs as strippers...
Once before, in the mid-1950s, striptease was briefly encouraged by Warsaw as an indication of liberalism. But then one stripper caused a sensation by dressing in native costume as Polonia, the symbol of the Polish nation, and stripping in three stages until her only attire was a set of chains. That supposedly symbolized Poland's captivity after its partition by the Austrians, Germans and Russians in the 19th century. But the act could also have been interpreted as a comment on Poland's fate under the Communists. A short time later, stripping was prohibited in Poland...