Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most of his work and I have spoken to him. I have a great deal of respect for what he is trying to do and have a very strong response to the work itself. My feeling is that he is more successful in that situation where the audience is Polish. Not only because of the question of understanding the language, because I think the way in which it is spoken, the special use of speech makes the words impossible for a Pole to understand also. But I think the environment in which he plays, the situation of being in Poland...
...Brandt said that West Germans must recognize that "facts have come into being during the past 25 years that we simply cannot reverse." Thus Brandt emphasized that he would be willing to sacrifice German claims to the lands east of the Oder-Neisse Line, which has demarcated the Polish-German border since the war's end, in return for better relations with Poland. Brandt's words were also intended for the East German Communist regime. Next week East German Premier Willi Stoph is scheduled to meet with Brandt in the West German city of Kassel in the second...
Less emotional observers, however, wondered whether the very scale of the response indicated that the accusation had hit home. A poll taken by the Allensbach Institute showed that three out of four Germans rated themselves "exceptionally clean." The average German housewife spends perhaps four hours daily scrubbing and polishing her home, and 75% of car owners feel obliged to wash and polish their autos every Saturday afternoon...
Lezek Kolanowski, the eminent Polish Marxist philosopher, reminds us that "language cannot be compared with a transparent glass through which one can contemplate the 'objective' wealth of reality. It is a set of tools we use to adapt ourselves to reality and to adapt it to our needs." This is why Popa's work touches on that close edge of experience or why it lies just beneath the surface of all things: the intention is to prevent confusion by celebrating an alliance with the words themselves. These poets, then, are proletarians, and their knowledge of alienation far exceeds...
...officially "to protest the use of violence." The organizers, who had their headquarters in Dedham, wanted to think of it as an activity which would appeal to people of varied political views. After all, even liberals oppose violence. They succeeded in attracting some sort of variety-from the Polish Freedom Fighter to as far left as Jim Nance. Nance was disrespectful enough to say that he did not feel we should have gotten into Vietnam in the first place. He felt, though, that since ?? were there now, there was no turning back...