Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most part, Poland's food problems today are manmade. In 1956, bowing to the demands of a fierce peasantry, Polish Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka allowed farmers to leave Poland's collectives and return to their private plots. But, Marxist that he is, Gomulka surrounded the peasants with a maze of economic controls. Last year, when the government pegged the price of potatoes too high, the peasants sold their potatoes to the state instead of using them as pig feed, then slaughtered their pigs prematurely, thus sharply reducing the pork supply for 1959. State price fixing produced much...
Last week, in response to Gomulka's pleas, Russia grudgingly agreed to sell the Poles 3,000 tons of meat-about one day's supply. Greater relief might come from Washington, where visiting Polish Agriculture Minister Edward Ochab was reportedly negotiating for $50 million in U.S. surplus food. But in the long run, Wladyslaw Gomulka and his planners were clearly committed to the proposition that Poland's only salvation lies in a return to collectivization. Difficulty was that they dared not try to bring it back by force, were reduced instead to touting a voluntary system...
However, the viewer leaves the theater not greatly entertained or significantly uplifted, but rather saddened that the tremendous polish and verve of the cast is wasted on so flimsy a medium...
Included in the program were German Composer Hans Werner Henze's atonal, heavily percussioned fairy tale, The Emperor's Nightingale; Polish-born Composer Alexander Tansman's Stravinsky-flavored exercise, New Clothes for the King; Italian Composer Nino Rota's The Cunning Squirrel. All three were hits. Henze's work, in particular, won a shrill, twelve-minute ovation. But defenders of the moppets' taste were badly shaken when Carlo Franci's Final Comedy and Giorgio Ghedini's Girotondo-both tricked up with flung pies, flying paintpots and banana-peel pratfalls-seemed to touch...
Thurs., Sept. 24 Staccato (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Pianist-Private Eye Johnny Staccato (John Cassavetes) has hardly slugged his way through his first two capers, but his style is already familiar: early Peter Gunn, with plenty of room for more polish. Still, Johnny is already smooth enough to take on a black-market baby racket...