Word: hungarian
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CHOPIN: ÉTUDES OPUSES 10 AND 25 (Deutsche Grammophon). Hungarian Pianist Tamas Vasary, 35, continues to build a formidable reputation as a Chopin specialist. This is his twelfth recording of the great Romantic composer, and he compares favorably with the late Dinu Li-patti, particularly in the slower etudes. Vasary seems to have absorbed Chopin's dreamy melancholy. He etches long, unhurried lines of somber melody, but when the music calls for it, he can be a rousing bravura player as well. Opuses 10 and 25 contain some of Chopin's most familiar writing, but in Vasary...
...years, up to 1918, his country was dominated by a Western power, the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Czechs' only hope was that a strong nation of similar Slavic culture, sensitive to Slav desires for self-determination, would help her drive for independence. The Russian Bolsheviks during the crucial years of World War I, became her champion...
...forests, Forbath chatted with Russian soldiers and officers, who talked amiably about their mission and offered him tea. While some other correspondents were running into trouble with both the Russian and the Czechoslovak authorities, Forbath was not prevented from visiting and viewing, perhaps because he speaks both German and Hungarian, the native tongue of most Slovaks in the area...
...reform to an ill-concealed attempt to intimidate the government by delaying the departure of Soviet troops, which had been conducting maneuvers on Czechoslovak soil. The most ominous Russian warning came from the official Communist Party newspaper Pravda, which for the first time compared the Czechoslovak situation to the Hungarian uprising of 1956. It spoke of Czechoslovakia's "counterrevolutionary activity"-the worst swear word in the Communist lexicon-and charged that the progressives in Prague were "more treacherous and sinister" than the Hungarian rebels. Pravda pointedly concluded: "Our society cannot remain indifferent at a time when the foundations...
...their democratic tradition, they regard it as something owed them, a birthright. People now tune in their radio and TV sets and expect to hear real news and not propaganda. They expect their leaders to be responsive to their questions and petitions, and to give them action. The Hungarian rebellion of 1956 was loaded with drama and tragic heroism. What has happened in Czechoslovakia has been more cautious, deliberate and evolutionary; it is an attempt at the marriage of Communism and democracy that is taking place under the disapproving parental gaze of the Kremlin. If the liberalization wrought by Alexander...