Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with nail-gnawing tension. But once in the spotlight, the lady is a cool and practiced performer. The nervous novice who got her first big break six years ago as the unknown vocalist on Percy Faith's recorded sleeper, Song from Moulin Rouge, has since given herself the polish of a pro. No longer does she settle for the stiff, tight-backed stance, the black, high-necked dresses and Peter Pan collars with which she turned her earliest act into a vague imitation of French Songstress Edith Piaf. Now she has a style very much...
...Star-Spangled Banner celebrates the fact that, after a night of battle, the country's flag was still there. The Polish national anthem celebrates the fact that, after centuries of battle, the country is still there. This cautious, realistic anthem -"Poland is not yet lost"-could serve as the theme of this book. The Frozen Revolution undertakes to explain how it happened that Poland is still there and that its cause-vital to the West-is not yet lost...
...introduce democracy in the Communist Party and to build "humane socialism" (which Gibney describes as a "wedding of modern Communist practice with an idea of the rule of law, half rediscovered"). But more and more his promises have given way to renewed repression, not only because Moscow and its Polish followers want it that way, but because Gomulka has discovered that a little liberty is a dangerous thing: "Gresham's Law is not true of political coinage - for the customs of a free society, wherever the Poles introduced them, began forthwith to drive Communist methods out . . . Where democratization inside...
...repression was temporarily rolled away and the life underneath suddenly laid bare, it became clearer than ever that the Communist state, even when men try to liberalize it, cannot do without coercion and police power. Author Gibney finds another way of saying this, in the words of a witty Polish intellectual. In a small Jewish congregation, so goes the story, a young Communist was puzzling about one of Stalin's famous slogans and asked: "Tell me, Comrade Rabbi, can you build 'socialism in one country'?" The rabbi thought deeply. "Yes," he replied finally. "You can build socialism...
...Upbeat. Eva is 18, apple-cheeked. a bandit (tomboy) in her native Polish village ; on her mother's urging, she decides to put the dreaded camps-of-no-return far behind her and to pass as a Christian. By a fast shuffle of the cards of identity, she turns up in Austria as Katarina Leszczyszyn, a Ukrainian D.P., peasant-merry and eager for work. An Austrian railroad executive and his wife hire her as a maid, and she does so well that they want to adopt her. Ironically, doctors find Eva "a perfect specimen of the Aryan race." (Author...