Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less excellent is Thomas Hill as Willy. Mr. Hill is through and through a professional actor and his every word and motion suggest absorption in the role. Robert Evans as Biff lacks the polish of the two older actors and at times seemed to communicate his nervousness. No doubt future performances will give him more confidence in his part...
...Poland, the one nation in the Soviet bloc that has managed to achieve some scant room for maneuver within the bonds of Russian domination. With their customary stubbornness, the Poles had at first refused to join in the general satellite rejoicing over the Hungarian executions. Speaking in Poznan, Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki said that Gomulka agreed to visit Budapest two months ago only after Hungarian Puppet Janos Kadar assured him that the final disposition of the Nagy group would be "bloodless." The Secretariat of the Polish Communist Party circulated a letter declaring that Polish Communist leaders "disassociated" themselves from...
This was a gallant performance and one well calculated to enhance Gomulka's prestige with the Polish people. But it was not practical politics. Khrushchev might hesitate to use military force against the Poles (who number 28 million against Hungary's 10 million), but he could well bring Poland to its knees in a matter of weeks by cutting off the raw materials on which the Polish economy depends. Accordingly, at week's end, Gomulka beat a retreat. The Nagy and Maleter executions, he declared, were "Hungary's internal affair," and "the attitude of the Yugoslav...
...CONTEMPORARY POLISH STORIES (252 pp.)-Edited by Edmund Ordon, with an introduction by Olga Scherer-Virski -Wayne State University...
Half of the ten Polish writers brought together in this book are living in exile. That is probably inevitable, since none of them seems to be gifted with the kind of talent a cultural commissar would find useful. The only line to which they hew is their personal vision of life. Except for two, these are stories born of a sad understanding of man's fate. Joseph Conrad is by that reason not too far removed from these countrymen of his. There is in some of them the same underlying Slavic brooding, the recognition that...