Word: warsaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...showed up at the polls last week and voted overwhelmingly for Comrade Wladyslaw Gomulka's Communist followers. Gomulka himself, who still lives on the reputation of having stood up to Khrushchev in 1956's October, gathered a record 99.54% of the votes in his Warsaw district...
...Some footage on the Warsaw ghetto, excerpted from SS training films, that is just about as gruesome as any ever put through a projector. Reduced to less than 200 calories a day, Warsaw's Jews shrivel up to skin and bone, huddle 13 to a room, lie covered with ghastly sores on beds of rags, fall dead by the hundreds on the streets every day. The corpses lie covered with flies till the corpse crews find them, fling them on carts, dump them down a chute into a mass grave...
This Kafkaotic little (15 minutes) fable, created by Raymond Polanski, a 19-year-old student at the Polish film school in Warsaw, mingles slapstick and horror with a screw-loose intensity seldom seen on screen since Emil Jannings went berserk in the last reel of The Blue Angel. What does it mean? Obviously nothing favorable to Poland's Communist society, but one guess is as good as another. One guess: in an evil world, virtue is an unbearable burden...
...agreement slowly pieced together since the talks began in October 1958 (see THE WORLD). Soviet diplomats spread the word that Khrushchev no longer cared about a summit meeting. And from behind the Iron Curtain drifted reports that Khrushchev was planning to use this week's meeting of the Warsaw Pact (the Communist version of NATO) to get the cooled-off Berlin cauldron boiling again. Big Stick. Khrushchev was obviously engaging Kennedy in a contest of at-the-brink nerves. If he could force Kennedy to back down, the President's authority and prestige, his capacity to lead...
Jerzy Soltan, a Polish architect, has also been named visiting professor of Architecture. He is now professor of Architecture at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw...