Word: polishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was not even much reason to cheer last week as Hungarian, Polish and Bulgarian troops, and the first Russians, began to depart. The East Germans had already gone home. But some 75,000 Soviet troops will remain stationed along a central line that virtually cuts the country in half, and 60 guns still ring Prague. The one major concession that the Soviets made in the treaty governing the "temporary" stationing of their troops in Czechoslovakia carried an ominous loophole. The status-of-forces clause in the treaty provided that Czechoslovak law should apply to occupying soldiers as well...
EMIL GILELS: BEETHOVEN'S FIVE PIANO CONCERTOS (Angel, 5 LPs). Recorded last April in Cleveland with Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra, this set often finds the Soviet pianist more in a mood to polish his tone than to push Beethoven's cause. The concertos are all neatly and expertly done, but they rarely express the excitement, abandon and sheer joy of the music. Gilels does better in the three sets of solo variations that constitute the sidefillers; the 32 Variations in C Minor is especially notable for its logic and rhythmic verve. But as a whole, this ambitious...
...hippies, hence his American Indian costume. But like many other young people, he is also tuned in to other cultures, as witness his fur-trimmed midiskirts, borrowed from Persia. The same is true for Deanna Littell, 29, who finds ethnic inspiration in the costumes of Polish peasants and Russian Cossacks; Gayle Kirkpatrick, 34, who adapts the dress of Persian houris; Edie Gladstone, 39, who fancies the look of Ukrainian dancers; and Bill Smith, 30, who does Cavalier styles in leather for Samuel Robert...
...myself, when I go into the college to recruit, I don't ask, one way or other, that is, it doesn't matter to me, you see, whether he's Jewish, Polish, Czech, whatever...
...community they feel particularly threatened these days by the forces of a changing world that they certainly never made, do not fully understand, and want no part of. Composed almost entirely of lower middle-class factory workers of Italian, Portuguese and Polish extraction, they view intellectuals with suspicion, students with scorn, and money with fear...