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Green-eyed, Hungarian-born Artist Kepes, 53, gives the impression of being a polite and watchful visitor at first. But he is more watchful than polite, and ruthlessly articulate. As professor of visual arts at M.I.T., he is used to conducting interprofessional seminars in such elusive studies as "structure" and "continuity," and to thinking out his own esthetic positions in precise if thickly accented terms. "It is not important to me to echo Auschwitz," he says, "or Hiroshima, or the Russian slave camps. We can't compete with such brutality, and we shouldn't just mirror it. What...
...both conductor and soloist, the performance was an act of devotion. Hungarian-born Fritz Reiner studied under Bartok at the Academy of Music in Budapest. Early in his career, Reiner started championing Bartok's works. "We were both from the same stable," he says, and adds in a rare burst of humility: "Of course, he was the great Bela Bartok, and I was only the little Fritz Reiner...
...address the Norwegian Students Association. As he labored through a recital of Russia's peaceful intentions, Mikoyan remarked that the Czechs had chosen Communism of their own free will. A Norwegian student got to his feet, said: "Excuse me, Deputy Premier. Do you also mean that the Hungarian people have chosen Communism by free will? We have many Hungarian students here at the university, and they don't agree with...
Mikoyan's mustached smile turned to an angry frown as he laid down the Communist view of history. The Red government of Rakosi, he said, did many wrong things and came into opposition with the Hungarian people; then reactionaries and villainous Americans started the revolution. And when Budapest asked the Soviet Union for help, it responded, because "of course, we help our friends." As for the "Hungarian students here in Oslo, I would only say that their hands are stained with blood...
...Alojzije Cardinal Stepinac, 61, Roman Catholic Primate of Yugoslavia. For years, he was a silent but unforgotten symbol of the war between Communism and Christianity, but he did not come quickly to his calling. The seventh of eleven children born to a farm family, he served in the Austro-Hungarian army in World War I, was twice decorated for valor before being captured by the Italians. After the Armistice, he studied agriculture and economics, planning to take over the family farm, but in 1924 he decided on the priesthood and went to study in Rome. He was ordained a priest...