Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...usually refused or simply ignored. Konrad K., 41, a worker in a Silesian concrete factory, applied twelve times in seven years. Three weeks ago, a plainclothesman knocked on his door and informed him that he must leave Poland by the end of the month. To help pay for his Polish exit visa (about $200 for persons over 16), he sold his antique Polish car for $100. "Some Poles were angry with us and shouted that we should have gotten out earlier," said Heinz H., 60, a telegraph operator for the Polish state railroad. "I told them that if they...
High Toll. At week's end both Szczecin and Gdansk appeared quiet. But the bitterness goes very deep, for reasons that are becoming increasingly clear. Eyewitness accounts by Polish visitors in Europe and elsewhere, unverified but similar, indicate that December's death toll, officially placed at under 100, might have been as high...
...separate accounts, the worst killing occurred in Gdynia. Workers on their way to the shipyard were stopped by militiamen and ordered to return home. When they refused, the soldiers opened fire, killing several of the crowd. Infuriated workers draped the body of a slain youth in a Polish flag and carried it toward City Hall. There militiamen fired again. Official reports said 21 were killed, but eyewitnesses said: "They have made a mistake; they have left off the nought at the end of the figure...
FRANCE. Soon after the French Communist Party marked its 50th anniversary at the end of 1970, it was embarrassed by two events in the East bloc: the Polish riots and the Leningrad trials. In each instance the party was highly critical. Traditionally conservative and doctrinaire, the French party was once so slavishly obedient to Moscow that its official newspaper, L'Humanité, described the Soviet repression of Hungary in 1956 under the incredible headline BUDAPEST SMILES AMONG THE RUINS. Under Georges Marchais, 50, who has taken over active direction of the party from ailing Party Secretary Waldeck Rochet...
...Midsummer Night's Dream raises one further question. Both Peter Brook and Jerzy Grotowski. the astringently rigorous Polish director to whom Brook is partially indebted, have repeatedly claimed that they want to restore the theater to actors and actresses. Yet the results of this director-actor axis have ironically proved the opposite. Actors under Brook and Grotowski express Brook and Grotowski, rather in the manner of orchestras under the batons of Toscanini or Koussevitzky. Their group efforts are mesmerically disciplined, but their individuality seems submerged...