Word: polishings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magazine . . . consists of 325 large quarto pages, of which no less than 15 are given up to articles on world politics, literature, etc. The rest consists entirely of pictures ... of ball dresses, mink coats, step-ins, panties, brassieres, silk stockings, slippers, perfumes, lipstick, nail polish-and, of course, of the women, unrelievedly beautiful, who wear them or make use of them...
...Poles reside in two modest flats. One was little-known Jakub Berman, Under Secretary of State without Portfolio (but with plenty of jobs), one of the most powerful members of Poland's Communist ruling clique. The other was lantern-jawed, indomitable Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, leader of the anti-Communist Polish Peasant Party who, of all Polish public figures today, enjoys perhaps the highest popularity and the lowest life-expectancy. The two neighbors, though they shared the same Tommy-gun-toting doormen, the same postman and the same erratic central heating, were not on speaking terms. They were engaged...
...like the merger were arrested by the Government's Security Police. Premier Edward Osubka-Morawski, a Socialist who obviously gets along with the Communists, was not one of these. He grimly underlined the connection between electoral victory and control of the police in a memorable statement: "No Polish Government has ever been defeated in an election. The record won't be broken...
Brailowsky's Chopin is more restrained but also more mannered than the gusty performances of his late, great friend Sergei Rachmaninoff. Brailowsky likes to think that he plays with the igth Century delicacy Chopin himself used. Says he: "The Polish and the Russian, we understand each other." But Chopin is not Brailowsky's favorite composer; Beethoven and Mozart come first. A typical Brailowsky concert runs from Bach or Scarlatti to Prokofiev-but always includes some Chopin. In Buenos Aires he played 17 recitals in eight weeks without repeating any work...
...Nazis wanted him to tour Germany, playing "anything but Chopin." When he refused, they put him into a work battalion digging trenches. One night he ran away ("Thank God I have long legs"), was smuggled into Austria to join the Polish colony in Vienna. He played Chopin for music-loving Austrians in Salzburg's Mozarteum, Vienna's Musikvereins-Saal. After a private recital in Rome an impresario arranged Andre's first public concert. It was a sellout...