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Within minutes of the official announcement of Popieluszko's death, thousands of Poles massed in front of the twin-towered church of St. Stanislaw Kostka, the parish in northern Warsaw where the priest had worked during the last four years of his life. Inside the church, Father Feliks Polejewski announced at the end of Mass that "Father Jerzy is among the blessed today." For a moment, all emotion seemed to drain from the congregation, which had kept up a determined vigil for eleven days. Then came the sobs, as the crowd haltingly began to sing a patriotic anthem. Reciting...
IMAGINARY MAGNITUDE by Stanislaw Lem Translated by Marc E. Heine Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 248 pages...
Many readers are ashamed to admit that they could not or did not finish a book. These unfortunates may take comfort from the latest flight into the cosmos of science philosophy (or sci-phi) made by Polish Fabulist Stanislaw Lem. It seems that the day is coming when publishing will proliferate past the vanishing point; individual volumes will be obsolete before they reach the binders, and turning pages will be a literal waste of time. "Are we not threatened with a flood of information?" Lem asks. "Such vastly multiplied content in collision brings no credit to thought, but rather...
FICTION: The Engineer of Human Souls, Josef Skvorecky ∙ Imaginary Magnitude, Stanislaw Lem Machine Dreams, Jayne Anne Phillips ∙ Something Out There, Nadine Gordimer ∙ Tough Guys Don't Dance, Norman Mailer ∙ A Weed for Burning, Conrad Detrez...
...other interesting promotion was that of Polish dissident Stanislaw Barancak, who will fill Harvard's chair in Polish language and literature, the only one of its kind in the country. Barancak first came to Harvard in 1981 as an associate professor, after three years of negotiation between the University, the State Department, and Polish authorities, who were reluctant to have him leave because of his opposition activities...