Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nevertheless, Wroblewska says she continues to feel very Polish. Poland is my country," she says, adding of Polish expatriates generally, "its like a disease--they can't stop thinking about Poland...
...sure that she wants to go back to Poland after graduation, at least to visit. If things change drastically, which she doubts, she wants to live there. But if she returns there is the danger that she would not be allowed to leave again unless she gave up her Polish citizenship...
...three principal actors seem to be plumbing their characters for a substance and realism which never was intended and never can be found. As a consequence, they neglect to polish and refine the little details which would have given a rarefied touch to Coward's flight of fancy. Katherine Ferrance as Gilda is appropriately sleek, but one cannot believe that a character who doesn't know what to do with her own arms and legs can skillfully manipulate other people. Richard Council as the painter Otto is a bit too heavy and straightforward, he says witty things, but his tone...
...Recapture of what was Germany in 1914 was the first objective: Danzig, the Corridor, and a hump of Upper Silesia. It is believed that Adolf Hitler, if allowed to take this much, might have checked his juggernaut at these lines. When Britain & France insisted that he withdraw entirely from Polish soil, he determined on the complete subjugation of Poland...
Poland's break with Russia was the spark. Hungarian students got permission to express sympathy with the Poles by gathering silently before Budapest's Polish embassy. Then the Communist Central Committee canceled the permit. Party Leader Erno Gero wanted no demonstrations. At noon there were angry student meetings in every college...