Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THIRTY years ago this week, on the morning of Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi bombers swooped down on the airfield and cities of Poland. A few days later, Adolf Hitler reviewed his all-conquering troops on Polish soil (above). The unprovoked attack touched off history's most widespread and cataclysmic conflict. Before World War II ended nearly six years later, it had involved 60 countries and claimed more than 50 million lives. This week, as wailing sirens in Warsaw and ceremonies across Poland marked the 30th anniversary of the German invasion, the Poles reminded the world that the first victims...
...beach, too, offers opportunities for various kinds of East-West relationships. German families, dispersed in a divided Germany, have tearful reunions on the golden sands. Polish black-marketeers, who drive down to Bulgaria every summer loaded with sheepskins, do a brisk seaside business with West Europeans. And everyone-capitalist or Communist-can now refresh themselves with Kaba Kara under the brilliant Bulgarian sun. Once regarded in the Communist world as the very symbol of American and capitalist decadence. Coca-Cola is now bottled in Bulgaria under U.S. license...
...armed with a UNESCO grant, the Polish archaeologist Kazimierz Michalowski set out with a team of scholars to excavate the most promising site: a hillside near the Bedouin village of Faras. There an earlier British archaeologist had discovered the remnants of a city of perhaps 30,000 inhabitants and unearthed parts of an Arab citadel. Michalowski dug into the citadel's foundations. Beneath its brick walls were the remains of what had once been a Christian cathedral, covering about 9,000 sq. ft. and intended for at least a thousand worshipers. Sustained by centuries of drifted sand, many walls...
...must itself change." One year ago this week, Dubček's historic attempt to guide Czechoslovakia's Communist Party in the direction of that change was suddenly and brutally undone. On a quiet August night, some 200,000 Soviet troops, with token support from East German, Polish, Hungarian and Bulgarian forces, crossed into Czechoslovakia. Whatever Dubček's miscalculations in conducting the most democratic experiment in Communism's history, he was undoubtedly right about the desires of the people. They have not changed. As the nation moved tensely toward the anniversary, both the Soviet...
...Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. see themselves as witty, wily intellectuals magnificently equipped to interpret (respectively) the left and right of U.S. life. Except when they confront each other directly, the notion is not entirely absurd. But when they fence on television or in type, bitchiness erodes their polish and learned discourse dissolves into tantrums...