Word: polishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CULDESAC, an inventive exercise in macabre slapstick by Polish Director Roman Polanski, looks like Part 2 of a projected trilogy of terror that began with Repulsion. This time around, Polanski plays his ghoulish games on a desolate North Sea island whose sole inhabitants are a half-mad old fool (Donald Pleasence), his hot-blooded young wife (Francoise Dorleac) and two unexpected nighttime visitors...
...office boy for a leader of the moribund local Democratic machine. As labor's influence began to grow, the party began to revive, and Dave Lawrence became a tough, effective precinct captain. In 1912, he attended the Democratic presidential convention, was smitten with the polish and intellect of the nominee that year, Woodrow Wilson. Sighed Lawrence: "That man has the real class...
...that simple, but in a broad sense the picture was accurate enough. Even today, long after the Hogan prophecy was replaced by the reality of an Irish Catholic President, long after mass immigration became part of history, politicians still talk easily about the Irish vote, the Italian vote, the Polish or Jewish vote...
...conservative Democratic candidate, Waggoner Carr. In Michigan, Governor George Romney carried Macomb County, a district full of prosperous second-generation Poles, by an easy 18,000-vote margin over Zolton Ferency, "the man with the ethnic name." Perhaps the most clear-cut demonstration came in Chicago's heavily Polish Eleventh District, which has been represented for years by a professional Pole, Representative Roman Pucinski. Pucinski is part owner of a Polish-language radio station, his mother has her own Polish program on another station, and no one is a more assiduous attender of parades and anniversary celebrations. Two years...
This is the second controversy between the Council and Harvard over the underpass. Last month, Whitlock agreed for Harvard that the underpass will be named after Brigadier General Thaddeus Kosciuszko the Polish hero of the American Revolution, to make up for the destruction of the square that bore his name