Word: polisher
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...America tells the story of a family of Polish immigrants who come to America in the 1870s. The protagonist, actor Maryna Zalewska, decides to simplify her life, moving with friends to California to start a farm...
...Pius IX, an oppressor of Jews in the mid-1800s, will. (The march toward canonization of another Pius--XII--has stalled in the face of renewed charges that he stood by silently during the Holocaust.) John Paul also plans to bestow sainthood on two women this year--the Polish nun Faustina Kowalska, who died in a Nazi concentration camp; and Katharine Drexel, an American socialite turned educator who dedicated her life to teaching poor blacks and Native Americans in the first half of the 1900s. And he has started his late friend Mother Teresa down the beatification path, waiving...
...certainly a logical extension of one man's efforts regarding the Jews and their state: first as a Polish archbishop helping draft the Vatican II language recognizing that the Jews did not kill Jesus, and then as the Pope who pushed through the Vatican's diplomatic recognition of Israel in 1993, making a state visit possible. (The Vatican's relations with the Palestinians have long been good...
...survivor he'd known since his boyhood. This on a day when, in contrast to previous pontiffs who'd taught that the Jews' exile from their land had been punishment for the death of Jesus, John Paul II took the unprecedented step of blessing the state of Israel. The Polish pontiff, who grew up among Jews, may well have succeeded in turning the page on his church's relationship with the faith out of which it grew...
...because the author of the new novel In America (Farrar Straus Giroux; 387 pages; $26) is the formidably intelligent critic Susan Sontag. Ergo, a long story that looks like a historical romance, a celebration of a 19th century woman who, in contemporary parlance, had it all--devoted husband (a Polish count, no less), passionate younger lover and glittering career--must be hedged about with postmodern ironies, runic clues to the reader not to mistake surface for substance. Mustn...