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...wrote the Romantic-era Polish poet Juliusz Slowacki in 1848, lines so visionary and improbable -- a Pole as Supreme Pontiff! -- that few, even in long-suffering Poland, believed they would ever come true. In 1938, however, a Polish teenager would be singled out for what would eventually be an appointment with prophecy. In that year, Karol Wojtyla was a student -- and an actor of considerable promise -- at a secondary school in the grimy industrial town of Wadowice. As the school's prize orator, he was asked to deliver a speech welcoming a grand visitor, the princely Adam Sapieha, scion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Paul II : Lives of the Pope | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

These courses are: In the Department of Slavic Languages-Russian 1b, Literature of the Nineteenth Century,- Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoi,- Composition, Mr. Wiener; and Polish 2b, Literature of the Nineteenth Century-Mickiewicz, Krasinski, Slowacki, Pol, Kalina, Sienkiewicz-Mr. Wiener. This last course is to be omitted in 1897-98. In the Department of Zoology, Course 9-Fossil Invertebrates, lectures and laboratory work, Dr. R. T. Fisher, is a new course. In the Department of Economics, Course 2 is to cover the whole of the nineteenth century instead of the last half only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Courses for 1897-98. | 4/2/1897 | See Source »

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