Word: warsaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ELEPHANT, by Slawomir Mrozek. A lion refuses to eat Christians, a Polish matron keeps a live revolutionary caged in her living room, civil servants begin to fly like eagles over Warsaw in the fantasy world of a brilliant young Polish satirist who pokes fun most often at the howling gap between reality and Communist Party renderings...
Another obvious topic for the Moscow Party meeting is the split with Red China. Even as the Russian press was pleading for calm, Peking's delegates to the Communist World Peace Council in Warsaw noisily condemned Russia's "peaceful coexistence" policy, including the nuclear test ban. Russian delegates retorted, as New China News Agency put it indignantly, by "banging the desks and uttering catcalls...
...story, Mrozek zeroes in on the absurdity of Communist hortatory jargon that often lends heroic titles to mundane party functionaries, hoping to inspire them. A group of civil servants is likened to eagles, and Mrozek takes the elevation literally. Warsaw clerks suddenly begin flying around their offices. They soar away from their desks, take to the mountains in southern Po land, and even begin carrying off lambs. Lead weights, which authorities cagily attached to their shoes, did no good, Mrozek records with relish-"they escaped in their socks...
...that the poles have been stolen and the wires were never delivered. Officials, however, have replaced them with a "more modern" system-men stationed every 100 yards to shout the messages. "There is no storm damage to repair," a local man proudly explains. "And the postmaster has gone to Warsaw to ask for megaphones."' Then comes a shouted message. "Father dead. Funeral Wednesday...
...stopped off for a drink at the apartment of U.S. Minister-Counselor Walter J. Stoessel. From there, an embassy chauffeur drove Barghoorn back to the Hotel Metropole at about 7:15 p.m. on Oct. 31. Then he disappeared from view, but since Barghoorn was scheduled to fly to Warsaw the next day, he was not missed...