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...some cases, never-seen by the public. An entertainer, however famous and accepted, can't affect the world so much as, for example, the companies whose financing is the most important factor in producing a film or an album. To me, that's real influence. Mate Endredi Budapest...
...reduced to managing a baroness's stable. Later, as an instructor of media studies at Queens College in New York City, Diane visited Hungary several times to do research and wanted to share the experience with her mother. So she surprised her mom Carol Hornbuckle with a trip to Budapest as a 70th-birthday present. Diane found them a pretty four-star hotel, the K+K Opera in Budapest, introduced her mother to her Hungarian friends and took her to places of historic interest like Esztergom Cathedral on the Danube and the Museum of Ethnography. At the museum, Carol spent...
...recalls Katin's mother, Esther Levy, who takes care of two-year-old Miriam alone in Nazi-occupied Budapest while her husband fights in the Hungarian army. The book opens with the urbane and middle class Esther sharing coffee with her best friend, discussing how the Nazi death trap was closing in. "I received an order to hand over the dog today," she says, as Miriam feeds ice cream to little Rexy. First denied their pets, the Jews of Budapest are soon commanded to leave behind all their possessions and report to the ghetto. Hearing rumors of round-ups from...
...Thankfully, in the second half of the book, Katin reminds us of life's kindnesses as the other side to life's cruelty. Still alive at the end of the war, her father returns to Budapest in search of his family, only to find them long gone. He begins his own parallel journey as Esther and Miriam take up residence with a family friend, the lonely scion of a local industrialist, whose family are all dead. A French governess provides a comic and blissfully domestic antidote to the earlier scenes of outrageous hardship. As the story winds up, it concludes...
...never - can be seen by the public. An entertainer, however famous and accepted, can't affect the world as much as, for example, the companies whose financing is the most important issue in producing a film or an album. To me, that's what real influence is. Mate Endredi Budapest Your presentation of the time 100 was heart warming. Your selections of the world's influential people portend a bright future for mankind, especially the King of Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuck. There will surely come a time when despots, dictators and presidents-for-life (of the kind found in Africa...