Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent Sunday, an American reporter and a visiting Italian Communist Senator journeyed to Mikofalva to see how Hungarian Catholics felt about Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, whom the Reds put in jail as a "traitor" (TIME, Jan. 10). The reporter found that Mikofalva's people thought their cardinal a good man. But he also found some exceptions. The strangest of these was Father Endre Molnar. Father Molnar is a Communist...
...gets set, you will have to batter your heads against the ice blocks and wait for a second thaw." The warning was almost too late. In 1917 the hard-pressed British had had good reason to win Jewish good will, especially in the U.S. and the Austro-Hungarian empire. After the war they had equally good reasons, they thought, to keep their promises to the newly liberated Arabs. The ice pack was already closing...
...Pretty Big Order." In 1930 Father Koczan returned to Szombathely after four years' service with Hungarian immigrants in Ohio. First he organized a new parish. Next he built a new church, one of the city's best. The passing years brought white to his crew-cut hair, and townsfolk of Szombathely placed their faith in him. The day after Cardinal Mindszenty was locked up, the Communist iron claw reached out for Father Koczan...
Readers who find false beards passe may as well pass up The Dukays, even though the publishers are boosting it as their "major book for the spring of 1949," and Author Lajos Zilahy as "Hungary's foremost novelist." The Dukays was a Hungarian bestseller in 1947; probably nothing but a popular revolt against tinsel fiction can stop it from being equally successful...
...plays which have made him popular at home and in Spain and Italy as well. The Dukays is his version of the decline of the West, from the turn of the last century to World War II; it follows the decaying lives of members of an aristocratic Hungarian family. Like many ostensibly moral stories, The Dukays' chief feature is not so much its somber conclusion in the inferno as its spicy descriptions of how the characters get there...