Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generous souls, the season will be one of giving, not receiving. "I have received presents from Santa Claus only a long, long, time ago," says Czeslaw Milosz, the Polish poet who is giving this year's Norton Lectures. "I give presents now--mostly clothing for my family, something fancy or pleasant...
...normal high polish of the Henry Moore statue between Lamont Library and 17 Quincy St. disappeared under a coat of packed snow molded to resemble Mt. Rushmore...
...imposes little on these elements. Lynn Jeffries' sparse sets--just a bed in one scene, a table and candlestick in another, two benches in the third--typify the laissez-faire approach that lets the play, through a remarkably strong and consistent group of actors, do the talking. Interpretation and polish have been concentrated, where they belong, in the difficult timing of conversations in which characters constantly interrupt one another and in the placement of peaks of hysteria in a steady crescendo of tension that could have deteriorated into a two-and-a-half hour endurance contest of lung power...
Ranging from fiction by Harvard philosopher Rober Nozick to science fiction by the Polish master Stainslaw Lem, the chapters provide an informative, though cursory, survey of thoughts on the brain. Mixed in are humorous digressions: a riddle that supposedly leaves thinkers catabolic (literally) and a brief parable of a man with no head. Often the pieces do not seem to interrelate, but the editors don't intend them to. Their only goal is to present ideas which will undermine the reader's complacent view of his own intellect...
Three weeks ago a small group of Harvard students demonstrated outside Harvard Hall, where a league speaker criticized the Independent Polish labor union Solidarity because of what he called its ties to Western Imperialism...