Word: polishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country where titles and family count heavily in business, Weinstock is the son of an immigrant Polish tailor. He was educated at state schools instead of Eton or Harrow, graduated from the University of London rather than Oxford or Cambridge. Weinstock joined General Electric-no kin to the U.S.'s G.E.-in 1961 when G.E.C. bought out Radio & Allied Holdings, an electronics firm founded by his father...
...MANOR, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. In this tragicomic account of the changes that rack a Victorian Polish-Jewish family, a popular Yiddish storyteller demonstrates that he has the credentials of a major novelist...
Violence for Peace. It is not so much what Bird says but who he is when he says it. To polish his metallic-voiced, dandruff-flecked,chipmunk-cheeked impersonation of Harold Wilson, he spends hours studying the Prime Minister's "Brechtian performances" on TV, which he likens to "a political guerrilla fight: always backing off, always in retreat, but always seeming to attack...
Abraham's Choice. The novel is a stark tale that shows how the ghosts of the Hitler era still haunt the Promised Land. In a Polish concentration camp, Nazi guards tell Haim Kalinsky that since his two sons are so "nice," they will kill only one of them-thus forcing on him a sadistic perversion of Abraham's choice. Kalinsky selects his favorite, eleven-year-old Shmuel, to be spared, while six-year-old Daniel is led away to be slaughtered...
Practicing religiously with 25 boys and 300 girls at a twirling camp in Syracuse, Indiana, Tuckwiller worked up the polish and "cocksure, sly, smily" attitude needed to win the contest and eventually to convince the Harvard Band it needed...