Word: polishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Complementing Lithgow's performance is that of Madeline Adams as his queen. Miss Adam's sorrowful Isabella speaks her lines, among the best in the play, with control and polish. She and Janet Leslie, Edward's niece, make wonderfully feminine contrast with the angry lords who battle Edward...
...glasses, and one official stepped into a washroom to discover vodka coming out of the faucets. In a tiny village near Kielce, residents recently celebrated a local store's purchase of a new padlock by guzzling 141 quarts of vodka in one night. It hardly helps that minor Polish officials wink at the nation's drunks. When a man checked in at a Poznan sobering-up station for the 40th time not long ago, the $250 debt that he owed the state for previous nights in the cooler was wiped off the books to honor his record performance...
...laughing matter. Radio Warsaw commented that in the province of Zielona Gora, workers lost 130,000 man-hours in a recent three-month period because of absenteeism, much of it "from the abuse of alcohol." Teen-age rowdyism is even more worrisome. One newspaper said 80% of Polish hooliganism could be traced to alcohol, while a Gdansk poll turned up even more remarkable statistics: among 5,000 youngsters aged 7 to 14, as many as 42% drank occasionally and 20% frequently...
...Brattle Theatre will give all proceeds from a showing of the polish him "Jonn of the Angels" on Thursday night...
With the royalties from his book (it has sold at least 80,000 copies and has been translated into French, Polish and Russian), Harrington has retired from his post as editor of the Socialist paper, New America, and is writing a new book on decadence in the lower classes. Always modest, he says he had no idea that The Other America would be so influential. When asked if his life is different now that he has become an American cause celebre, Harrington commented only that "it's a little bit more hectic." Although his dedication to the poor forces...