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Polish television, which rarely shows Poland's powerful Roman Catholic Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, found it expedient to broadcast a sermon of his, perhaps because of its shushing appeal for moderation. Since then, however, the government has allowed some freer discussion in the press and on television as well as radio broadcasts of church services, an encouraging turn that may prove temporary. "Don't go yet," a Polish airlines clerk said to the Times's John Vinocur as he bought a ticket to leave Gdansk. "It's good if somebody's watching...
...Charles William Eliot II in S.B. Sutton's Cambridge Reconsidered: "The optimum area for a town was figured by the time-distance from a meeting house which would permit the farmer to milk his cows, harness old Dobbin, drive his family to the meeting house, endure a two-hour sermon berfore refreshment at the tavern, and drive home again to milk the cows in the evening...
...CRITIQUE of Didion could be done in the soporific manner of a sermon, but instead it's pulled off with bitchy wit and the "Oh, come on" acuteness of a woman with ardent, no-nonsense opinion. Here she attacks Didion's infuriating preference for sensibility over sense...
...Cardinal's apartments. The invitation was widely interpreted as an attempt by Wyszynski to mend fences with the workers, many of whom felt that he had failed to support them adequately during the strikes. The workers were especially disappointed by the Cardinal's Aug. 26 sermon calling for "calm and responsibility." Excerpts were broadcast on state television, giving the impression that Wyszynski opposed the continuation of the strikes. The Polish episcopate later protested that it had not authorized the broadcast and that the government had edited it to serve its purposes, but many workers remained suspicious...
...government apparently saw a chance to get its own message across to the devoutly Catholic majority of the workers by broadcasting those excerpts of the sermon that called for order, patience and moderation. In one key passage the politically sophisticated Wyszynski had reminded the nation of "the difficulty with which we regained our freedom after 125 years"-a reference to Poland's long domination by foreign powers, and an implicit warning against provoking a Soviet invasion. The broadcast, and a subsequent transcript in the party daily, made it appear that the church was supporting the government against the strikes...