Word: warsaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...junior grade, the Communist Party youth newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda frequently berates students for hooliganism, debaucheries, or ideological lapses unworthy of Marxists. Fortnight ago, the newspaper turned with relish on a new target: a group of 44 U.S. students from U.C.L.A. and other schools whose low jinks aboard the Moscow-Warsaw express would, if true, have stirred a furor on the Atchison. Topeka & Santa...
...refer to the Berlin Wall as "ugly." Those who have seen the Warsaw Ghetto Wall would disagree with you. Built to German specifications, it cast a taller shadow and was uglier by far. It signified extermination for all those inside, as opposed to the Berlin one which merely restricts travel...
...Warsaw, where the U.S. and Red China have had diplomatic contact in the past, the Chinese ambassador sought and received assurances from the U.S. ambassador that the U.S. would not support a Nationalist invasion of the mainland. But, said President Kennedy at his press conference, in the event of "aggressive action against Matsu and Quemoy . . . the U.S. will take the action necessary to assure the defense of Formosa and the Pescadores...
...young philosophy professor, Leszek Kolakowski, who was once a dedicated Stalinist, now talks more like a democrat. The leader of the 1956 intellectuals' revolt, he was singled out for attack by Gomulka for carrying "revisionism" too far, though he is still allowed to teach at the University of Warsaw. In his essay, The Priest and the Jester, Kolakowski compares a philosophy of absolutes to the priest in history, a philosophy of skepticism to the jester. Between them there is eternal struggle. "Both violate the mind," writes Kolakowski, "the priest by strangling it with catechism; the jester by harassing...
...Warsaw last week, thousands of Polish housewives queued up for sugar, flour, salt and potatoes. A shiny new self-service market called "Super Sam"* rang up $4,000 in sales during its first two hours...