Word: budapests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...further squeezed by Russia's campaign to achieve political control as well. In charge of the campaign was a short, little-known secret police career man named Boris Osakin, who bore the inconspicuous title of Deputy to the Soviet Ambassador. From his desk at the Soviet Embassy in Budapest, half a dozen direct wires connect him with the leaders of Hungary's Communist Party. The wires have been buzzing lately...
...nothing could better summarize the state of the Hungarian nation than the one thing Budapesters have managed to save from the wreckage: their famed wit. Once gay as a gypsy's bow and spicy as goulash á la Szekely, the jokes circulating through Budapest cafés last week were bitter...
...surface Budapest is a purged Babylon. The wild inflation of six months ago has been curbed by drastic Russian measures. The street-corner financiers with their briefcases full of dollars and the peddlers who sold Leicas, slightly used countesses and pearl-handled revolvers are in hiding. The possession of U.S. dollars is now a death offense. The joke to match: Q. "What are they giving for the dollar these days?" A. "Sixty." Q. "Forints?" A. "No, years...
...Harpsichord (Alexander Schneider, violin, and Ralph Kirkpatrick, harpsichord; Columbia, 12 sides). A first-rate sonata team making itself at home in the 18th Century. They play Mozart's melodious Sonatas in C Major, B Flat Major and G Major. (Alexander Schneider is an alumnus of the great Budapest String Quartet; brother Mischa still plays in it.) Performance: excellent...
...Author. Budapest-born Arthur Koestler lives on a sheep farm in North Wales, is now staying at the tiny Left Bank Hotel Montalembert, where he has rewritten his play Twilight Bar (a flop in the U.S., it never reached Broadway) for a Fans performance. He refuses to identify himself as a Zionist, says he doesn't approve of terrorism but can understand the Jews' bitterness and despair. To write Thieves in the Night he drew on two years of banging around in the Near East (20 years ago) as a correspondent for a German paper. He took...