Word: polishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University of Wisconsin's Department of Rural Sociology has isolated 23 different ethnic stocks as dominating various sections of the state. German, Polish and Norwegian are the leading foreign stocks, with German dominating 51 counties, Norwegian 11 and Polish...
...Line from the Polish classic Dziady...
Though Dziady, written by Poet Adam Mickiewicz in 1832, has long been a staple of study in nearly every Polish high school, its appearance on the Warsaw stage a few weeks ago caused an uproar. When audiences laughed too loudly at the anti-Russian lines, the government's censors closed down the whole production. In recent weeks they have also closed two other plays and kept from circulation the most promising Polish movie of the year, a surrealistic comedy on politics called Hands Up. Also kept from circulation was Critic Janusz Szpotanski, 34, author of a musical satire...
...than ever in silencing its critics and banning what does not please it. The regime's heavy-handed treatment of Poland's cultural community has become so oppressive that last week, meeting in the first extraordinary session of its 48-year history, some 350 members of the Polish Writers' Union voted to draw the line at the government's most recent crackdown. In a strongly worded resolution, they accused the Gomulka regime of throttling Poland's cultural life...
...smallest ruling Communist parties in the world. Naturally, the party's malaise tends to become the butt of the very humor that the regime fears and seeks to ban. As a joke making the rounds in Warsaw last week had it, a popularity poll of top Polish leaders is now impossible. Reason: no one remembers who they are any more. The government was not laughing at that one, either, but there was not much it could do about...