Word: budapests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buried Box. In Budapest, the cardinal soon learned of what had been decided during the Cominform's busy day. He began to prepare for his arrest. In a stern farewell message to the clergy, he recalled that he had been lenient with the Catholic laity in giving absolution in cases where wrongdoing had resulted from Communist pressure; he warned that there must be no backsliding on the part of the clergy: "I have eased the conscience of the faithful; naturally this does not apply to a single priest, monk...
Brahms: Quartet No. 3, Op. 60 (Mieczyslaw Horszowski, piano; Alexander Schneider, violin; Milton Katims, viola; Frank Miller, cello; Mercury, 7 sides). Mercury could hardly have gotten together a finer ensemble (Schneider is a Budapest Quartet alumnus; Katims and Miller are both first chair men in Toscanini's NBC Symphony) to bring this grimly powerful Brahms quartet back on the record shelves. Performance and recording : excellent...
Hindemith: Quartet in E Flat (the Budapest String Quartet; Columbia, 6 sides). Yale's Composer-Professor Paul Hindemith wrote this heavy quartet in 1943. Dreary in its slow movements, it even has a note of gloom in its bright ones. Performance and recording: good...
...state primary school in Communist Budapest, a Hungarian teacher asked ten-year-old Istvan to compose a sentence containing a dependent clause. "Our cat had ten kittens," said Istvan, "of which all were Communists." "Excellent," said the teacher. "Exactly right. Be sure you do as well next week when the government supervisors come." The following week she asked the prize student the same question. "Our cat," said Istvan, "had ten kittens, of which all were Social Democrats." "Why, Istvan," cried the teacher, "that's absurd. That's not what you said last week. Last week your kittens were...
Political Football. Ferencvaros is the name of a middle-class district in Budapest, also the name of Hungary's oldest and best soccer club. The team's rooters are anti-Red. Two weeks ago Ferencvaros played the all-Communist Iron Workers, Rakosi's own club. Into the Ferencvaros stadium, on Ulloi Ut, crowded 25,000 fans. Rakosi's team fell behind. Inflamed Ferencvaros rooters began to shout: "Kill those Communist...