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...they banged out nothing but noisy chords," he says. "Today, the professionals do more than that -they do filigree work, background and single-string playing that bring out the undeveloped qualities of the instrument." Concert Banjoist José Silva, whose educated banjo can romp through complicated pieces like the Hungarian Rhapsody and Poet and Peasant, loves his instrument for its warm humanity-about as far from the denatured ickiness of an electric guitar as he can get. "The banjo is a wild thing," he says. "You stroke it wildly, and that figure-eight gesture they used...
During those years and since, thousands of articles and hundreds of books have been written about the Dreyfus Affair. Now comes Hungarian Refugee Journalist Nicholas Halasz to prove that the story has lost none of its excitement when coolly researched and laid out in skillful narrative 60 years later...
Strained Conscience. Treason there was, but the traitor was not Dreyfus. As a Jew, he made an excellent scapegoat. Even after the high command learned that the real traitor was Major Count Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy, decadent scion of the aristocratic Hungarian family, they tried to cover up their mistake and even let Esterhazy keep his rank and assignment. Dreyfus' conviction touched off a wave of anti-Semitism that made it dangerous for anyone to doubt his guilt. But one general-staff officer, Lieut. Colonel Marie-Georges Picquart, found the truth more than his conscience could stand, although he cordially...
...cardinal, sentenced to life by the Communists in February 1949, had been "allowed to interrupt his term of imprisonment," said the Budapest radio, "following a petition submitted by the Hungarian bishops because of his bad health condition and his age." The government announced that he would live in a "church "building selected by the Hungarian bishops," i.e., probably a monastery...
...Hungarian-born Schoffer painted dolls in a Paris factory before World War II, fought with a Maquis hill band during the German occupation. "Under the shock of war," he says, "I evolved into a different sort of person. I began meeting intellectuals; I began sculpting new ideas; I began to hold conferences...