Wives, mothers & heroes:
Kosciesza, Bogumil
Wives, mothers & heroes BOGUMIL KOSCIESZA some writers into a false conclusion...
...he is a friend of an actress...
...This synth- ownership of their dowries...
...faith onto the Polish stock, all constantly nurtured with vividly...
...when he read Boleslaw Prus he must Godfather, a movie is big enough and good enough to rate a have read Eliza Orzeszkowa...
...The popularity of Rocky 11 makes me think that reviewing when he discovered the author of Quo Vadis he probably also movies is a waste of time anyway...
...When Jaws II came out, I universities opened their doors to women as soon as they were obligingly wrote a fresh, witty, original piece pointing out not denied their right to do so by the foreign oppressor...
...wife could by no means be considered her husband's `chattel.' A paradox...
...Flax and certain other crops, the esis is the strongest in the realm of family relations, in the original crops of Poland, belonged to them, not to their husperception of the duties, the privileges, and the roles of family bands...
...The turies...
...It just ain't right...
...They ran the status deteriorated rapidly in the Renaissance, during the time estates...
...members...
...together with the economic crisis...
...Throughout the times of persecutions and foreign dominaEven in pagan times, when women's rights and privileges tion it was the mother that kept up the spirit, the national pride, were greatly limited, their position was good enough to lead the hope, the faith, the language...
...Privation, torture and death -many of you work in those fields that are opening up today knew no sex differences...
...Po- critics...
...farewell Mass in Warsaw is another plaque dedicated to In agricultural Poland women worked side by side with men "Scouts who died defending this church" -a single alphabetfor centuries...
...Rocky was a stumble14 September 1979: 501...
...To deny a woman her right to intellectual achievement struggle for minds, for freedom, for survival made no distincwould be to deny's one's Polish heritage...
...It was not a marriage by women...
...It was volunteer women, BOGUMIL KOSCIESZA, a previous contributor, to Commonweal, is a who, in the face of ruthless punishments, kept up the education chemist, editor, author and historian...
...In the church where he said his my words over the media...
...It was Polish mothers who defeated Bismarck's Kulturkampf...
...sports hero-a black American, Jessie Owens...
...It was a film that had something two games of winning Wimbledon...
...and Janusz Kusociriski, lightly likable about it...
...man, the woman still a woman, they both happen to work as The stormy history of Poland is replete with the names of police officers...
...greatest influence of ancient Greek thought...
...It was the sisters in neighboring areas...
...Wives, mothers & heroes BOGUMIL KOSCIESZA some writers into a false conclusion that the Polish society was matriarchal...
...In the offi- the 15th century a Polish woman had all the rights of her class cially materialistic present-day Poland, putting one's parent in on a par with a man, including the rights to sue, to appear as a a nursing home still brings at least private opprobrium on party witness, to sign contracts, to adopt...
...These what a stale, old-hat, exact copy of a movie.it was...
...Perhaps significantly, women's women, the mothers, who provided stability...
...Now I'm acts could not even begin to repay the political, cultural and handed Rocky II...
...Marriage was a solemn pact between two friendly clans, rasses "sophisticates" by constant reminders of his de- an agreement accompanied by festivities and a mutual exvotion to Mary...
...Stasia Walasiewicz (Stella Walsh), "the fastest the sort that you wouldn't want to see again, especially if you woman in the world...
...by the Nazis, one commemorating the women who gave their "The Pope's affectionn is directed also toward working lives for Poland...
...But then the sequel comes along, except take care of their children when the mother died, who wept that it isn't so much a sequel as a Xerox of the original...
...It was novel or charming in some way the only man who bested the Finns at long distance running...
...Their kept up the traditions...
...that, if you didn't look too closely, managed to retain its appeal Only much later did Polish youngsters acquire another male for the hour or two the film lasted...
...and encourages women to use their bride and the groom were the `objects' of the arrangement, the talents at work outside the tradionally "female occupations...
...Her ancient new review...
...moments of difficulty and trial...
...she received her share of the family fortune as her dowry...
...Through your creativity you take part Warsaw on his pilgrimage, his first visit was to the city's in the transformation of this society...
...When it's time to turn in intellectual debt the nation owed to generations of women...
...But for the Konopacka, the winner of the first Olympic gold medal for most part, the sort of film that gets treated to a re-make is just Poland...
...he is obviously at ease i4 the company of change of gifts of -equal value...
...The sports heroes of Polish boys sequel...
...of peasant and worker children...
...When the original film comes out, you dutifully land's Unknown Soldier may well be a woman...
...A erty...
...Nobody openly at a calamity, who publicly expressed their affections...
...No, a Pole...
...Occupied, war-torn, forever rebuilding, modern Poland has always had a large proportion A FEW YEARS ago an American wire-service reporter was of its married women working to help make ends meet...
...Maria Sklodowska- familiam et non parvae auctoritatis matrona, strenue regens Curie considered that cooking, sewing and personally bringing domum suum,-" writes Otto of Bamberg...
...he embar- clan...
...Yet the poor, underpaid, Poland of Lolek Wojtyla, established in her first constitution ill-appreciated reviewer is supposed to come up with a whole the equality of her citizens regardless of sex...
...has been known to abduction, or even a marriage by purchase...
...heroic women, of women who fought after the men gave up, who took up arms when their menfolk fell, 4.vho alternated Screen between defending the ramparts, caring for their families and cooking for the garrision...
...my review this week, I'm going to dig into my files and find With other grade schoolers Lolek probably read Maria that review of Jaws II , and Xerox it...
...Once in awhile, as with The discovered Zofia Kossak...
...side in the right nave: one in memory of the priests murdered bring in your contribution...
...Although theoretically she' was subject to her husband, her Whether pope or party protagonist, a modern Pole's con- worry was not her husband's discipline, but her mother-incepts, ideals and beliefs are the fruit of grafting the Catholic law's tender mercies...
...tion between men and women...
...In Rocky's case, it was his charm...
...Later centuries brought in almost constant wars, constant Poles are proud that historically the position of women in invasions...
...brilliant intellectual and ecclesiastic achievements but for his quaedam . . . dives ac nobilis valde . . . multam habens public reverence for his peasant mother...
...Since both the serenade a woman skier...
...mothers_ of sons were accepted as full members of the prepare themselves to be wives and mothers...
...The Polish man is not envious of their achievements-one is not jealous of one's heroes...
...And you write Polish history is also full of men who gave up their careers to your review...
...Fine...
...Jadzia Jgdrzejowska, who came within enjoyed it the first time...
...Up to the middle of up her children took precedence over her career...
...Konopnicka long'before he discovered Henryk Sienkiewicz...
...With the men away at arms, the de lege feudal that country was better than the lot of their contemporary paternalism was replaced by de facto maternalism...
...More rarely, as with Godfather 11, or The French of his generation were three women and a man: Halina Connection 11, a sequel is better than the original...
...True, a woman could not inherit, but and women...
...There, he must have passed by two plaques side by creates possibilities of ever more important tasks for women...
...Women attained influence as priestesses and THIS POPE shocks militant feminists by exhorting girls to seers...
...Vidua...
...In Christian times up to the 16th century, women retained remembered distant and recent historical events...
...A .. I think of Him...
...they of the...
...amused to see a Warsaw policeman taking over point duty "Remember that Virgin Mother who knew how to be a cause from his female colleague: a click of the man's heels, a smart of joy for the husband and a careful guide for the Son in military salute, then a bare-headed bow to kiss the lady's hand...
...When Pope John Paul II came to to women's talents...
...The late arriving industrialization came almost ical list of boys and girls...
...The modern life style cathedral...
...The Parthenon of Polish Commonweal: 500 women writers, poets, artists and scientists spans the cen- Wartime Poland became Karol Wojtyla's pedagogue...
...Legally, the God for a father had a master in life and everyday labor, " says ownership of the land vested in the sons but, until the death of John Paul II...
...The church and the mother, the two pillars of wives present here, and to all the women who are listening to continuity, of national identity...
...Enough is enough...
...For a Pole duties bf parents transcend all other their mother, they had absolutely no control over their propduties...
...You like it, or you don't...
...involved in the film-not the producer, the writer, the director Resurrected after a century and a half of partitions, the nor the stars-has had one new idea...
...who from His Mother learned to widow had lifelong control of all her husband's properties, real behave like a man, and who in the just man given to Him by and movable, except for their daughters' shares...
...go and see it...
...they passed them to the next generaprestige was restored during the Counter-Reformation and by tions...
...She knew how to remain A Pole finds nothing strange in the incident: the man is still a strong in goodness even at the most difficult hours...
...In the Warsaw square where Pope John Paul celebrated the first Mass MOVIES BY XEROX of his pilgrimage there is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier...
...In 1919, with most men away fighting off the advancing Soviet forces, the city of Lwow was defended by its THIS CRAZE for re-makes makes it very hard on movie remaining inhabitants: the old, the women, the children...
...The family, in fact, went directly from the manus of the contemporary Polish Primate was extolled not because of his oaher familias to the manus of the mater familias...
...Thereis no dignity greater than that of a parent...
...they became the beloved and reverend 'Magistrae.' the resurgept devotion to Our Lady...
...They kept the proceeds of the sale of their own and their members, and, by extension, of the young and the old, of men household's handiwork...
...they brought up both the sons and the daughters...
...The body was brought there from the cemetery of the "Eaglets SON OF SEQUEL STRIKES BACK of Lwow...
Vol. 106 • September 1979 • No. 16
