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Outside Poland the Kaczynskis are often portrayed as figures of fun, a duo of unprepossessing country bumpkins who govern by sentiment and sanctimony. They have been pilloried for their obstinate defense of Polish interests in Brussels and for their seeming paranoia about enemies at home. But the PIS is no joke, and it would be a mistake to underestimate its domestic appeal, which is rooted in widespread anxiety about the blistering pace of change since the fall of communism in 1989. Many Poles feel that change was forced on them by corrupt, distant and overeducated leaders. "There is a huge...
From fiddling to singing, the music of “Republic of Dreams” is touchingly mellifluous. Jacek Ostaszewski, a world-renowned Polish composer, composed the musical parts for the different actors, which are sensibly reminiscent of Schulz’s past and present. The vocal performance of Hayley Brown as Bianca, Schulz’s love interest, is especially outstanding...
...combined all her talents to create a chaotic cornucopia of primary documents, creative narration, lyrical prose, and journalism. The book is told chiefly from the perspective of Antonina Zabinski, who, with her husband Jan, served as the keeper of the Warsaw Zoo under the Nazi regime. The two Polish Christians turned their war-ravaged zoo into a center of resistance against the Nazis and a safe haven for Jewish escapees. The Zabinskis managed to keep their zoo under the guise of running a pig and fur farm to supply German troops, but scores of fugitives from the Warsaw ghetto...
...former trade unionist and Polish President Lech Walesa is the city of Gdansk's most famous son, then its second-most famous progeny is probably the Nobel Laureate German writer Gunter Grass. Grass, of course, was born in Danzig, as Gdansk was known before it reverted to Poland at the end of World War II. And while Walesa became internationally renowned for leading the shipyard strike that led to the formation of the Solidarity trade union and proved to be a decisive blow in the collapse of Polish communism, Grass was honored for his passionate and clear-eyed excoriation...
...beside the backstage vaudeville of the catalogue that precedes it. Gone are the living-room fuzz and the steady solitude of a lone acoustic guitar. Gone, too, is the image of a storyteller, suspender-bound, murmuring myths on a sun-drenched porch. In some ways, to bemoan the increased polish of Iron & Wine is to lament the inevitable, as with expanding audiences comes a pull into the wiry world of the studio. Still, selfish as it sounds, there was a soft magic to the lo-fi ambiance of his earliest records, buried now below vocal effects and extended (by Beam...