Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...walked a good deal of the way." E. H. Cookridge, Philby's onetime colleague in the British Secret Service, who is now a multivolume espionage historian, provides an account that rings with spooky authenticity in some details. He says flatly that Philby sailed from Beirut harbor on the Polish ship Dalmatova. Philby himself, in his smug, annoyingly charming autobiography, refuses to say, since his Soviet friends might want to use the route again...
Still another copy of Cancer Ward went to Madame Helene Peltier-Zamoyska, the wispy Frenchwoman who spirited all the works of her old friends Sinyavsky and Daniel to the Polish exiles running Kultura magazine in Paris. As for Solzhenitsyn, rumored to be ailing from cancer himself, he has demanded that everyone cancel foreign publication of his book-not so much to prevent Westerners from reading it, probably, as to deprive the Soviet censors of one more excuse for banning it at home...
Further difficulties arose when sponsors of the Fair tried to reserve the Common for yesterday only to hear from the Cambridge City Father's that the grounds had already been allocated to the Polish American Citizens who plan to re-erect a plaque displaced during construction of the underpass. Fortunately the potential conflict never materialized and a compromise was worked out: the peaceniks would disrupt the Shabbos and the Poles the Sabbath...
Four days spent in cooling the slums gave Stokes time to polish some ideas. Then he began to act. Farmers were killing pigs to dramatize their desire for higher prices; Stokes got them to donate the hogs to a project dubbed "Operation Pork Chop," which distributed 60 tons of free meat to Cleveland's poor. He launched town-hall meetings to touch people for volunteer work at city hall. He bewitched the audience of Captain Cleveland, a kiddie video show advocating good citizenship. His biggest decision was to call the first planning session for a major, long-term effort...
More recently there was widespread protest by most Polish intellectuals and students (who were certainly not all Jews) against the official Polish line which vigorously denounces Israel in the war against the Arabs. This protest has also been interpreted as evidence of the treasonous sentiments of the group pushing for personal freedom. However, it remains to be seen how effective the campaign to deny any cultural freedom will...