Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...definable pitch, while the cellists slapped their instruments and scraped violently below the bridge with their bows, creating a tumult like the roar of giant wasps. Periodically, the screams would subside into desolate silence, fearfully anticipating the next frantic outburst. It was the Threnody written in 1960 by the Polish composer Penderecki as a memorial to the victims of Hiroshima, and it conjures vividly the sirens, the explosions, and the terrible agonies of the dying during the atomic blast...
Almost from the moment the curtain goes up, one feels that one is browsing in a library, which, in the theater, is the dramatic equivalent of dozing off. To begin with, the story does not lend itself to a willing suspension of disbelief. The setting is a Polish ghetto town about a century ago. Yentl (Tovah Feldshuh) is an extremely bright girl who relishes reading and discussing the Talmud and the Torah with her learned father. It is strictly taboo for a Jewish woman to be studying these sacred texts. Yentl is precocious and prone to dispute with her elders...
...will escape his perils as on what he perceives with his wonderfully penetrating gaze. He sees, before anyone teaches him, the letters of two alphabets, Hebrew and English, and the intricate manner in which they relate. He sees his father, first as a vigorous, powerful man, respected by other Polish immigrants as the onetime leader of a guerrilla band in Galicia; then numbed and jobless, battered by the Depression. Finally and most poignantly, he sees the suddenly aged figure as a tired warrior, so embittered by pogroms and concentration camps that he opposes furiously any contact David may have with...
Jews led the list, with average house hold incomes of $13,340 (in 1974 dollars). Not far behind in second and third place were Irish Catholics ($12,426) and Italian Catholics ($11,748). German Catholics followed with $11,632 and Polish Catholics with $11,298. In sixth place were Episcopalians, with $11,032; Methodists earned $10,103, and Baptists ranked lowest with...
...cosmetics industry; of cancer of the pancreas; in Manhattan. Reared in Wisconsin, Daly crashed male-dominated Madison Avenue in the early 1950s when as an agency copywriter she drew up Revlon's famous "Fire and Ice" campaign. It brought sex appeal to the selling of lipstick and nail polish and made Daly indispensable to Revlon. Later she became vice president and creative director of the company, where (at $100,000 plus) she was one of the nation's highest-salaried women...