Word: austro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delightful score, notably the famed Treasure Waltz, a melting Act II love duet, and plenty of Hungarian themes, both martial and melancholy. Another plus: Designer Rolf Gérard's brilliant costumes and sets, particularly a Viennese throne room almost handsome enough to bring back the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Heavily on the minus side are a preposterous libretto, not aided by Translator Maurice Valency's English lyrics, and Cyril Ritchard's uncertain direction...
...city's Istrian hinterland went to Yugoslavia. The Yugoslavs have worked hard to build up nearby Fiume (now called Rijeka) as a rival port. By keeping labor costs at coolie levels, Rijeka offers shippers rates running 20% to 50% below Trieste's. The nations of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, for which Trieste used to be the prime port, are mostly Communist now, but even non-Communist Austria has diverted so much of its business to Rijeka that this year, for the first time in history, Rijeka is handling more maritime traffic than Trieste...
...performances of The Diary of Anne Frank. But Vienna police decided that a secret society of juvenile delinquents called Bundes Heimattreuer Jugend had bigger ambitions. Last week they raided the B.H.J., seized arms and explosives and uncovered plans to dynamite the Italian embassy as a means of aggravating the Austro-Italian dispute over South Tyrol ; the young thugs also planned to rough up delegates to the Communist World Youth Festival in July. Police arrested 18 members, including 27-year-old Ringleader Gustav Etzelt. Significantly, most of the arrested young neo-Nazi hooligans were in their early 20s, too young really...
Legally under the code they can. Humanely, as the Smilja incident dramatically illustrated, grave problems are raised in consigning returnees to an uncertain fate back home. Since most Yugoslavs are economic refugees, more than half the 4,852 who crossed the Austro-Yugoslavian border since the crackdown began New Year's Day 1958 have been returned...
...fish and cunning, the Kwimpers hold off waves of governmental agents, sociologists and gangsters intent on civilizing them. Writers have loved such types, from Shakespeare's Nym, Pistol and Bardolph, who defied Elizabethan order, to Hasek's Good Soldier Schweik, whose peasant idiocy proved smarter than the Austro-Hungarian monarchy...