Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wittgenstein devoted his life to pursuing the ineffable may not be explainable either, but at least it can be talked about. With caution and discrimination and color, Authors Janik and Toulmin attempt to show how Wittgenstein's theories grew out of the fertile decay of the Austro-Hungarian Empire...
...first ambassadorial post, was nicked in the leg by a bullet and Belgian Chargé d'Affaires Guy Bid was hit in the foot. They, along with others, were forced back into the embassy. Once they got inside, the terrorists rounded up more diplomats, including the Hungarian and Yugoslav envoys who unsuccessfully tried to hide in the roof garden...
...Would a unified Western Europe be better able to deal with such problems? In Eastern European capitals, the worry is that Moscow will come to think so, and react to the emergence of a united, successful West by tightening its grip on the bloc. "So you see," explains one Hungarian official, "we're caught in the middle-between the Soviets' perpetual fear of capitalist powers aligning against them and the West Europeans' aspirations for union...
Died. Joseph Szigeti, 80, Hungarian-born violin maestro, who made his debut in 1904, his first recording in 1908; in Lucerne, Switzerland. A restrained, elegant performer in the classical tradition, he was also an early proponent of 20th century Composers Sergei Prokofiev and Fellow Hungarian Béla Bart...
Hammarskjöld did not often get his way, of course. There was little the U.N. could do about Khrushchev's brutal repression of the Hungarian uprising...