Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sunset on the Bachelor's Flat. In an official directive, Hungary's Communist Council of Arts sternly observed that Hungarian popular music has become "decadent," lacking in the "dynamic rhythm of the new democracy." They express a maudlin desire to return to the "good old days." As an example of the kind of song that was out of tune with Marx ism, the council cited the following ballad...
Budapest's csardas alley was terror-stricken. If a Hungarian could not write about gypsy sweethearts, wishing wells and bachelor flats, what could he write about? Grimly, the boys buckled down to the rhythm of the new democracy. One new Hungarian song presents the revised new view of the good old days. Before the Communists took over, relates the song, a certain "have-not peasant" could not even afford to buy a new shirt or pants, while the landlord's dog grew fat on the peasant's produce. Then, the Communist land reform gave the peasant four...
...Hungarian songwriters caught on to this sort of thing so quickly that the Arts Council had to issue another warning against an "opportunistic trend...
Festerings in the Tanbark. While Hungarian art was thus being purified, the Communist citadel itself was polluted. Russian musicians, writers, painters, sculptors, drama critics, publishers, ice skaters and brass bands have already been purged. But the most awesome new menace to Soviet culture had festered in the tanbark of Russian circuses. It was known as "Western clownism...
...becomes "Henry Higgins," and the Bunsen flame in front of Eliza's mouth flickers visibly with every "h." Finally comes the great test, and sweeping a starchy Ambassador's Ball, Eliza waltzes with princes, chats with royalty, and convinces one of the Professor's colleagues that her accent is Hungarian. Afterwards, Eliza accuses Professor Higgins of using her merely for an experiment, and tries to go back to selling flowers in Covent Garden. But in the end, she discovers all in gutters is not gold, and Higgins finds himself no longer a bachelor...