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Further indications of the failure of the communist regimes to develop "communist morality," and inculcate communist-defined "ideal types," can be seen in the results of a survey of Hungarian school children. The majority chose the "bourgeois" hero Robin Hood over both Marx and Lenin when responding to questions concerning figures perceived as heroic types. When asked why, the children cited the qualities of bravery, honesty, and loyalty--not the most important of the behavior traits which communist regimes seek to instill in its young citizens. Only 9.5 percent of the school children chose "heroes of the workers' movement...
...survey by the local paper in an important provincial Hungarian city, Pecs, showed that there was considerable political apathy among the students in Pecs University. Attitudes of mistrust, cynicism, and even hostility to politics were found. Similar apolitical attitudes appeared in one of the surveys conducted by the Hungarian youth organization (KIST). In responding to the question of how they used their free time, students indicated that they preferred literature and the arts, young workers preferred television, sports, and dancing, and peasant youth occupied themselves with cards, bowling, and sessions at the village inn. There was no significant spontaneous devotion...
...usual, Hungarian plainclothesmen were waiting outside the U.S. legation in Budapest on the remote chance that the old man might emerge. There was no chance at all. Inside, Josef Cardinal Mindszenty thanked the legation staff for a bouquet of red and white carnations that celebrated his 75th birthday, stared briefly from his window at the Soviet war memorial in "Freedom Square" below, and continued the political exile that began during the uprising of 1956. The Hungarians have offered him amnesty, but Mindszenty refuses to leave his asylum, or his country, until the Communists clear him of the trumped-up charges...
When Vienna-born Dr. Fredrick Carl Redlich was tapped in 1951 to head the department of psychiatry at Yale University's School of Medicine, he dreaded administrative duties. Over the years, he jokes, "they said that I ran the department like the old Austro-Hungarian empire-with absolutism mitigated by sloppiness." He improved his technique enough to suit Yale; last week University President Kingman Brewster Jr. announced the appointment of Dr. Redlich, 56, to be dean of the School of Medicine. Come July 1, he will succeed Pediatrician Vernon W. Lippard, 62, who will become a special adviser...
...Language. By melding the sprightly vigor and natural speech rhythms of the folk melodies with traditional harmonies, Kodály and Bartók forged a new, distinctly Hungarian musical language. The works of Bartók, always the more inventive and adventuresome, became increasingly dissonant and experimental. Kodály's music was more a paean to peasant simplicity-edges blunted, the passion sometimes prettified, but always stimulating in its warmth, clarity and soaring lyricism...