Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moscow had raised Poland's bald-domed Wladislaw Gomulka from the Communist underground to a place of power. Last week, through Poland's Communist Party (called the Polish Workers' Party), Moscow slapped him down. The reason: Gomulka, like Yugoslavia's Tito, had become a dangerous "nationalist...
...Warsaw the Central Committee of the Polish Communist Party roasted Gomulka, Vice Premier and the party's secretary general, over a Moscow-kindled ideological fire. In party jargon, Gomulka was charged with four cardinal sins: 1) he lacked "understanding of the . . . leading role of the Russian Communist Party in the international front combating [U.S.] imperialism"; 2) he suffered from nationalism; 3) he had an "unconquered and repeatedly renascent social democratic attitude"; 4) he had a "tendency to postpone the struggle against capitalist elements feeding upon exploitation of the poor and medium-sized peasantry...
...orchestras as Amsterdam's superb, 65-year-old Concertgebouw and Rome's famed Augusteo. They had heard the Mozart piano concertos, performed unforgettably by their finest living interpreter-Pianist Artur Schnabel. They had seen Mozart's operatic masterpieces, Don Giovanni and Cosi fan Tutti, given with polish by a company that is fast becoming the best in the business-Britain's Glyndebourne. They had heard superlative choral works, including Bach's B Minor Mass, sung by a chorus with few peers-the Huddersfield Choral Society...
...Perl was an abortionist. But she plied her terrible trade out of mercy. She has explained: "It was the policy of the Nazis to immediately put to death all Jewish, Polish, Russian and French women who were pregnant, in the gas chambers, and in the crematorium. I aborted them to save their lives." Last winter Congress passed a special bill granting Dr. Perl permanent residence in the U.S., on the urging of Representative Sol Bloom, who praised her "simple humanity" in saving "the lives of more than 3,000 women...
Just nine years ago, men drinking in languid Paris cafes, staring at the sky from Polish fields, listening to tremulous radios in American living rooms, were afraid of war. Their fears were justified when on Sept. 1, 1939 German bombers started battering Poland to a pulp...