Word: warsaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last year joined 33 prominent intellectuals in a forlorn bid for greater freedom, and persisted after others gave up, best known for her sensitive four-volume saga (Nights and Days, 1934) of the rural gentry, and later studies of the landless peasantry; of heart and kidney ailments; near Warsaw, Poland...
...pulse beat for new modes of dress, dance, language, art and morality. The sledgehammer refrains of Wayne Fontana and the Mind Benders' Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um can be heard parting the walls of a Yokohama teahouse, a recreation room in Topeka, or a Communist youth club in Warsaw. For better or worse, like it or loathe it, rock 'n' roll is the sound of the Sixties...
...moved with his family to the state of Washington, later attended Washington State College, where he majored in speech. After graduation, he went to work for educational organizations and in 1935 was hired by CBS. Sent to Europe to line up cultural programs, he was on an assignment in Warsaw when he got word of the Nazi Anschluss. Hastily chartering a plane to Vienna, he arrived in time to broadcast the Nazi takeover. After this triumph, CBS installed him as a permanent commentator in London...
...FAMILY MOSKAT, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The story of a wealthy Warsaw family, told with richness and scope reminiscent of the great 19th century Russian novels. Singer, too often tagged as "the master of Yiddish prose," ranks among the best novelists in any language...
Relations with the Communist bloc are also thawing. Although the Caudillo has not gone so far as to establish diplomatic contact, Spain has opened commercial offices in both Budapest and Warsaw, and allowed Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria to send trade missions to Madrid. Spanish soccer teams often entertain Russian opponents these days, even though it means flying the hammer and sickle over Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. The Catholic newspaper Ya, which, like the rest of the Spanish press, had for more than two decades been forbidden to publish a Russian dateline, last month opened its own Moscow...