Word: polishings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S Paris Bureau summed it up: "The Polish declaration will lose hundreds of thousands of voters for the French Communists. But the smaller the party gets, the more dangerous it will become. The immediate results will be an intensification of active opposition and the hastening to office of a strong anti-Communist Government of which the likeliest leader is De Gaulle. Now the Communist party in France moves definitely into final opposition-until it can assume sole power. The strength of an anti-Communist government here depends on the vigor and speed with which declared U.S. policies...
...Dismay, touched by despair, was spreading in Communist ranks. Communists cannot rally the working class of Western Europe against the Marshall Plan, because many of the Socialist leaders are for the plan. The Polish declaration is an attempt to gain the appearance of having the initiative. In Italy a bloodless civil war has begun. There is no sign that the Reds will be so foolhardy as to start a military civil war. The decorous blue serge suit is still prescribed Communist fashion; but last week the Communists, in effect, unbuttoned the double-breasted coat long enough for the world...
...toying with the idea of a last-minute enrollment in English G, you'd better polish up your favorite reading selections from Shakespeare: "try-out" for the course is scheduled for Friday...
Take one rather windy, over-long play that has plenty of Ideas, sit on it, heavily to press out the depth, cut it to a sensible length, then polish so it glistens, and you have the current product at the Shubert. The process transforms a dramatic treatise in philosophy into a funny but two-dimensional play, perhaps the best that can be done with. "Man and Superman," which is, after all, something to be read rather than seen. Shaw's rebellious witticisms are served up in the elegant, stylized manner that Gielgud brought to perfection in "The Importance of Being...
...half at "Woodside," the twelve-acre estate on Spring Street where he lived for nine years. The big, yellow brick house is now owned by the W. L. Mackenzie King Woodside Foundation, which hopes some day to make it a national shrine. Meantime it is rented to Polish-born Tony Kielbasa, a tanner. Mr. King pointed to the spot where he and his brother had once pitched their tent and to a bank that had once been covered with violets. He talked of his mother's bed of lilies-of-the-valley. A giant tulip tree in the grove...