Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BORDER CROSSINGS and check-points punctuated the 24-hour Paris to Warsaw train ride. The car had filled up in West Germany with Polish families returning from visits with relatives. Following tearful good-byes, lively conversation picked up in my compartment. Passengers fussed with overstuffed suitcases, fearful that they might burst open. Each family brought several large pieces of luggage stuffed with clothes and food. Cartons of orange juice spilled out of the purse of the young woman sitting next to me. I asked about the many parcels. "We have nothing," a Polish woman explained...
...neither Soviet domination not economic hardship has erased the unique and often inspiring Polish identity. While camping in southeast Poland, one evening I huddled inside a warm log cabin with a group of other campers while rain poured. We sipped vodka prepared the traditional way: a mound of sugar on a small piece of bread melted over the liquor turning it light brown. A man played Polish folk songs on the guitar. Forgetful for the moment of the vodka's expense, the small group exchanged pleasantries that revealed an enduring commitment to national autonomy. One joke suggested just how long...
Many readers are ashamed to admit that they could not or did not finish a book. These unfortunates may take comfort from the latest flight into the cosmos of science philosophy (or sci-phi) made by Polish Fabulist Stanislaw Lem. It seems that the day is coming when publishing will proliferate past the vanishing point; individual volumes will be obsolete before they reach the binders, and turning pages will be a literal waste of time. "Are we not threatened with a flood of information?" Lem asks. "Such vastly multiplied content in collision brings no credit to thought, but rather...
...with one writer that it is commonly referred to as Greeneland. But Graham Greene's burnt-out cases are rapidly being replaced by Latin American protagonists and European figures who have a fresher story to tell. Detrez is still an unfinished writer, and he lacks the craft and polish of his great predecessor. But he has a sense of the appropriate image and the right valedictory tone...
...televised debate last week with two former Solidarity members. Most viewers, however, quickly recognized the pair as apostates who had publicly recanted their allegiance to the union during the martial-law period. Nor have Warsaw's claims of liberalization persuaded the U.S. to lift its objections to Polish membership in the International Monetary Fund or to the restoration of Poland's most-favored-nation trading status. Both measures are crucial to the economic health and political stability of the regime...