Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Warsaw, the official newspaper Zycie Warszawy reflected Party Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka's newly amiable attitude toward Bonn by suggesting that German-Polish talks on the renunciation of force were "imminent." This week the two nations open new discussions on trade...
...Wolf passed away in his sleep one night from natural causes; his heart stopped beating when the three men who slipped into his bedroom stuck knives in it." Occasionally he offers a bemused sociological insight: "Southern Italy is the same as the rest of the world. People stroke and polish machines while goats urinate in their houses." The trouble is that after a while the joke, like chewing gum on a bedpost, loses its flavor...
...their power of giving was immense. It was irresistible; I think even the dead would have to respond. And the actors' dedication to giving is here because of the theories director Moss has used for guidance in his show-those of Jerzy Grotowski. she now-famous mentor of the Polish Laboratory Theatre...
...same attitude could hurt Harvard tonight. but there is little chance that it will take the Indians lightly. A careless defensive game Thursday night and a discouraging lack of polish in the Northeastern end of the rink showed the Crimson that it can lose to a squad that is far inferior in ability if it neglects to take it seriously. And Harvard will be careful to keep it from happening again...
...Grand Tour by Christopher Hibbert. 256 pages. Putnam. $12.95. "If a young man is wild and must run after women and bad company," Dr. Johnson once observed, "it is better he should do so abroad." But whether in search of pleasure, polish, or the splendors of Palladian architecture, young Englishmen, usually with tutors, infested Europe for three centuries. With well-chosen pictures and pungent quotations from travelers (including Diarist John Evelyn, Tobias Smollett and Edward Gibbon), this book gives a remarkably funny and extremely revealing country-by-coun-try account of Albion's impact upon the Continent-and incontinent...