Word: polishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many Polish pianists visit Mexico City, and when Artur Rubinstein played there in 1954, it was almost too much for one Pole in the audience. He rushed backstage, burst into Rubinstein's dressing room, and began hugging and kissing the startled pianist, exclaiming in Polish: "That was the greatest thing I ever heard!" When the kissing stopped, he introduced himself as Henryk Szeryng, a 32-year-old music teacher at the National University of Mexico. Intrigued at finding a countryman so far from home, Rubinstein inquired: "Do you play at all?" Yes, his compatriot admitted, "I love to play...
Hungary, Czechoslovakia and East Germany sponsor state design institutes and couture houses. Poland's Jadwiga Grabowska, manager and chief designer of Warsaw's EWA style center, is frequently on television in her role as "the dictator of Polish fashion." Like her counterparts in other Red lands, she vies with Moscow to produce annual "socialistically styled" lines of dresses and sportswear, which are sent as exhibitions to foreign capitals, while troops of designers at the same time study the latest inspirations that Paris has to offer. Party newspapers and television urge women (and men) to dress more tastefully...
...terms. As the old terror abates but never entirely vanishes, as the old dogmas die but never get buried, intellectuals in Russia and Eastern Europe increasingly feel as "alienated" from their own societies as some of their Western counterparts. When British Poet Stephen Spender recently told a gathering of Polish writers that what he wanted to see most of all was a Communist, a voice from the back of the hall called out: "You have come too late for that." Soviet-bloc Communism has become a weird conglomeration of Marxist remnants, state socialism with tentative injections of free enterprise...
...Revolution-the witch doctor in tiger skins," wrote a Polish poet in praise of the Congo rebellion. In fact, Red witchcraft is doing poorly in Africa. The only African country under outright Communist domination is the former colony of Congo-Brazzaville. Through hamhanded diplomacy and sloppy technology, the Russians alienated two of their likeliest converts, Guinea's Sekou Toure and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah. China, usually more subtle in its subversive techniques, has also managed to stomp on African toes. Peking's men in Burundi were thrown out early this year after a Chinese subversion campaign that...
...frustrating it is to reach out for something, and then you find it isn't there") entangle Ashley and Segal, whose love life consists mostly of Social Significance. He, a man of the people, sketches the wretched Cuban sugar workers sweltering away in steerage. She, a girl of polish, prefers nice portraits, or maybe landscapes. Their conflict is resolved in bed, where the masses can't come between them. Such Abby Mannerisms help transform a substantial work of art into a second-rung work of artifice, never quite worthy of those Ship passengers who deserve to travel first...