Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fitting conclusion to the Bach Society's year and to Stulberg's career as its conductor. Both the orchestra and the audience responded enthusiastically to the resounding final chords of the piece, sharing the poignantly conflicting feelings associated with the end of an outstanding year. In its technical polish and emotional fervor, the performance of the Brahms was emblematic of the Bach Society's season...
Died. Samuel Belkin, 64, Polish-born chancellor of Manhattan's Yeshiva University; after a long illness; in New York City. Belkin supervised the university's growth from a relatively small seminary to an institution that included America's first medical school (Albert Einstein) and first liberal-arts college for women (Stern) under Jewish sponsorship, as well as several graduate schools...
Tune up your harp, polish your old halo...
...rent a house or apartment on the grounds of race, color or creed. But he opposes Government programs "to inject black families into a white neighborhood just to create some sort of integration." Said he: "I have nothing against a community that is made up of people who are Polish, or who are Czechoslovakians, or who are French Canadians or who are blacks trying to maintain the ethnic purity of their neighborhoods. This is a natural inclination...
Without Venom. A Mercenary describes a far different victim of the Holocaust. Stanislav Lushinski is a Polish Jew who survived both the Nazis and the Russians and now works as the U.N. representative for a small African nation. Colleagues mock him as the "P.M."(Paid Mouthpiece), but his past has put him beyond their taunts - and, he hopes, beyond any pain other humans can cause. His cold irony makes him a perfect manipulator of international diplomacy. "Don't try to ram against the inevitable," he advises a young black assistant. "Instead, tinker with the timing." If Lushinski...