Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both are the sons of immigrants. Koch's parents were Polish Jews who worked in garment-center sweatshops as youngsters. Cuomo's parents, illiterate in their own language, ran a grocery after emigrating from Italy. Both young men became lawyers before entering politics...
...from Suite No. 3 in D (Henryk Szeryng and Maurice Hasson, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner conductor, Philips). Bach was the field marshal of the concerto form, regimenting the fluid lines of such Italian masters as Vivaldi and Corelli into complex string masterpieces. Szeryng, the Polish-born virtuoso, and Second Fiddle Hasson demonstrate great authority within Bach's polyphonic ranks. Their counterpoint in the double concerto is superb, as is the accompaniment led throughout by Neville Marriner. One quibble: Szeryng's treatment of the slow movements tends to be brooding rather than introspective...
With that, attention shifted to a very different kind of conflict in the attractive, ordinarily tranquil Marquette Park area. Surrounding the park is a blue-collar ethnic neighborhood (Polish, Irish, Lithuanian) of shaded streets, neatly trimmed lawns and well-maintained bungalows, one of the last white enclaves in the city. Not coincidentally, it is also the site of the headquarters of Collin's Nazi party. Last summer, during a civil rights march there, 16 citizens and 16 police were injured in the ensuing riot. Lately crowds of up to 1,500 beer-swigging white youths have swarmed around...
...article for Foreign Policy magazine titled "America in a Hostile World." He called for a "new international economic order" and for new American leadership to help create it-a leadership that would set "politically and morally compelling directions to which the public might then positively respond." Now the Polish emigre academic, a man of angular features whose crew cut seems a carryover from the '50s, is comfortably entrenched in the West Wing of Jimmy Carter's White House, in the same large, gold-hued corner office once occupied by another foreign-born but very different ex-professor, Henry...
...Sweden's 700,000 to 800,000 immigrants-now 10% of the population -have resisted attempts to sprinkle them among the population. When Assyrian "ghettos" began to form last year, the government tried to break them up, but the clannish refugees simply moved back together. David Schwarz, a Polish-born naturalized Swede who edits the Journal of Immigrants and Minorities calculates that if the immigrants keep arriving at the current rate of about 20,000 a year, nearly a third of all Swedes will be of foreign descent by the year 2000. Warns Schwarz: "The big problem will come...