Word: warsaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ridden script nor its miscast stars, but the gemütlich approach of Director Anatole Litvak. The slick editing and the bright, bold colors seem less to polish the picture than to varnish it, and they cannot cover the film's faults. The waifs of German-occupied Warsaw are too plump and well padded, the armies seem too clean and well mannered. And the officers are too self-consciously symbolic of Germany's decadence and decency, grossness and grace. Somewhere beneath it all is a plausible plot and a powerful picture gone wrong...
...excessive wear on the ball bearings of Chinese trains coming into Hong Kong, combined with several other signs of unusual activity, U.S. watchers in 1962 were able to detect large-scale troop movements, reflecting Peking's fears of a Nationalist invasion. The U.S., through its ambassador in Warsaw, was able to assure the Communists that it would not support any such move by Taiwan, thus forestalled a potentially explosive confrontation...
...Hagar (David's grandfather) had made it from Warsaw to Boston Light; Aaron had made it from Boston to Harvard Yard; in more than the journeyman's sense David would be expected to make it to the top of Beacon Hill...
...sure, it was trying to stay aloof from the quarrel. "We know nothing about the dispute except what we read in the papers," said Monsignor Fausto Vallaine, speaking for the Vatican. At week's end, though, there were rumors that a papal emissary was already in Warsaw to talk about the seminaries. But remembering Gomulka's rude veto of a papal visit during the millennium, few observers thought that the state was about to modify its stand. And no one expected that the rugged old cardinal would change his mind...
...months ago, the government's harsh attitude toward dissent entered a tough new phase. It began when Leszek Kolakowski, a party member and professor of philosophy at Warsaw University, addressed a student meeting. His subject was Poland's progress since the 1956 revolution. His conclusion: there had been none. No democratic freedom had evolved. Criticism and research in literature, sociology, modern history and the arts were still sharply inhibited. The old Stalinist penal code was still in existence and arbitrarily applied. The students applauded wildly, and several rose to support Kolakowski's defiant conclusion...