Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME asked Manhattan-based Culinary Expert George Lang, who owns 4,000 books on cooking and gastronomy, to draw up a short list of books that he considers essential to the kitchen library. Hungarian-born Lang is a renowned chef, author, designer, restaurateur (Manhattan's charming Cafe des Artistes), and president of the George Lang Corp., which creates restaurants from Manhattan to Manila...
Starting Jan. 1, however, the government of Socialist Chancellor Bruno Kreisky will abolish 502 of the splendid titles bestowed upon civil servants under the Austro-Hungarian Empire and, until now, faithfully preserved by two Austrian republics. A mere 108 titles will remain in official use. Many of these will be simplified in an attempt to humanize and democratize relations between Austria's 7.5 million citizens and its 345,000 federal bureaucrats, who are notorious for their sloth and discourtesy...
...Case Worker (1974), Hungarian Novelist and Sociologist George Konrád examined a day in the life of a state welfare worker in Budapest. As a catalogue of human detritus, the novel was both powerful and disturbing; in its rapid-fire vignettes and tortured ruminations, it strained toward poetry. Konrád was justifiably praised as a promising new international voice and as something even more rare-a sociologist who can write...
...play involves the story of an old Hungarian scholar who is trying to author a book about Hungary after the First World War and Germany during the Weimar Republic and during the rise of Hitler. As Antal Erdelyi, the 85-year-old and decidedly eccentric protagonist, professional acting teacher Robert Owczarek puts on a marvelous performance that in the long run saves the show from triviality and boredom. Owczarek splendidly mimics the movements, speech pattern and inflection of an elderly European gentleman, getting the most out of lines that are sometimes overwritten...
...Hungarian film-maker Yvette Biro flew into Boston yesterday to give a lecture at Carpenter Center last night on the six films she wrote with Miklas Jansco...