Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether croaking out a few bars of a Polish ditty on Dyngus Day* in South Bend, Ind., or japing down hecklers in Coos Bay, Ore., Robert Kennedy continued to elicit the extremes of ardor and rancor...
...traditional Polish spring holiday, which is the equivalent of April Fool...
Gary Byrne's Launcelot Gobbo, wide-eyed and Cockney, gets his laughs, by never pushing for them. His timing is impeccable. And while Byrne's polish doesn't always extend to the other comedians in the cast, there are no actively annoying performances. Whatever the minor actors lack in ability, they do not make up in pretentiousness. That in itself is a blessing these days...
...Explanation. Through almost every level of Polish life, the purges of the last few weeks continued and even intensified. With no explanation, the government shifted three more key generals to new commands. Also dismissed from their posts were a Catholic Deputy in Parliament who had protested police action during the student riots, the rector of Lodz University, Marxist Philosopher Adam Schaff, three junior ministers, a vice minister and the editor of the Yiddish newspaper Folksstyme. Their firing brought to 36 the number of top officials so far known to have been purged...
...have been the price Gomulka paid to avoid an immediate showdown with his critics, but it also whetted their desire for power. Police Boss Mieczyslaw Moczar, the man behind much of the anti-Gomulka dissidence but normally a shadowy figure, appeared three times in the past two weeks on Polish television, then held an even rarer press interview to attack the moral support given to student rioters in the weekly newspaper Polityka-a publication closely identified with Gomulka...