Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first Secretary of the Interior to use the official Endangered Species List before-not after-a species was virtually extinct. By putting eight species of whales on the list, Hickel banned imports to the U.S. of nearly all whale products (meat for pet food, oil for cosmetics, shoe polish, margarine). "Hickel has chosen to make the list preventive rather than commemorative," said Roderick Cameron, head of the Environmental Defense Fund. Two days after Hickel was fired, the White House rescinded the order...
...staying away from Budapest, Ulbricht also displayed his displeasure toward 1) Kádár for the slight liberalism Hungary is enjoying, 2) Poland for concluding a treaty with West Germany, 3) Polish Party Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka for inviting West German Chancellor Willy Brandt to Warsaw to sign the treaty, and 4) the Russians for sidestepping the issue of diplomatic recognition for East Germany...
This fall in the same arena, the same company plays Jarry with manic polish and aggressiveness. There are moments of tedium, but more than a few moments of genius. Most interesting is Jarry's exploration-from the comic-erotic novel Supermale-of sexual excess pursued to the point of agony and death. Demonstrating incidentally that the body costumed can be more profoundly arousing in theater than the body naked, Jarry on sex as produced by Barrault is visually delightful, intellectually provocative, closer to Sade's black understanding than to Tynan's slick preaching...
...Harvard (graduated from Berkeley in 1935) and appears lacking in much of the polish traditionally associated with the Harvard administration. Coming into the deanship in the middle of restructuring debates and Faculty power struggles, his blunt manner has been his greatest virtue. In departmental meetings, he's been blunt and open enough to gain the trust of widely divergent Faculty groups...
...bespectacled 22-year-old American out of White Plains, N.Y., who greatly resembles a tight end recently became the darling of countless Poles from Cracow to Lodz by doing something very dear to the Polish heart: playing Chopin with great power and feeling. His name is Garrick Ohlsson. At Warsaw during the three-week-long International Chopin Competition, he was awarded first prize over 80 other pianists. He is the first American ever to win the contest and the first young American pianist since Van Cliburn back in 1958 to become an overnight national hero behind the Iron Curtain...