Word: polishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...church. The Episcopal Church is remarkable for its liberal thought, and surely is not offended by Pike's questioning, but only by his method of questioning. He has shown himself capable of deeo reflection and perceptive expression. Discipline rightly used will not diminish his message, but will polish and refine it into the harmonizing and reforming force it is meant...
...perhaps too pat a symbol of Jewish suffering and persecution. A product of the Warsaw ghetto, Nissim escapes at 13 from the cattle car that is taking his family to the gas chambers at Oéwięcim. He learns to kill while traveling with a band of Polish partisans. Eventually, he goes to Israel, where he continues to kill-first the British, then the Arabs. Later, as an assassin for the Shin Beth, the Israeli secret service, he is assigned to liquidate two former Nazis who are developing atomic rockets for the Egyptians. It is soon apparent that...
...group met Polish Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz in the White Hall of Warsaw's beautiful Wilanow Palace. Yugoslavia's President Tito received them at a 10 a.m. reception at the new Federal Executive Council Building in downtown Belgrade. His fluent English surprised the visitors. "It is a sign of good relations that you came to Yugoslavia," Tito remarked, "even though from time to time we have problems that affect our economic relations...
...stop, the group invited 60 or more outstanding citizens to dinner. They met ballerinas in Warsaw, poets in Budapest, movie stars in Prague, and university professors and journalists everywhere. And the tour left time for the travelers to explore on their own. In Warsaw, two or three visited a Polish university center for a three-hour talk with some of the students. In Budapest, on the tenth anniversary of the Hungarian revolution, some of the tour members heard Liszt's moving Coronation Mass sung at historic Matthias Church, where the Hungarian kings were once crowned. There was time...
...Manet show will be seen only at the Art Institute of Chicago before being disassembled and sent back to the lenders. Among other major exhibitions slated to bypass New York is Chicago's "Treasures from Poland," on loan from the Polish government, which will go only to Philadelphia and Ottawa. "The Age of Rembrandt," which includes paintings from major Netherlands museums that may never again be allowed abroad, will be seen only in San Francisco, Toledo and Boston. Equally rare is Cleveland's "Treasures from Medieval Art," which includes a host of objects never seen outside France before...