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...trial of Cardinal Mindszenty in 1949, the president of the Hungarian court was a balding, saturnine man who directed a continuous stream of prejudice-laden questions at the accused. No Communist, Judge Vilmos Old had been an Arrow Cross (Nazi) leader up to 1945, switched his allegiance to the Red totalitarians when the Russians marched in. The Communists found him a useful tool, used him to press home distorted charges against such people as Robert Vogeler and Edgar Sanders. Archbishop Joseph Grosz, numerous Yugoslav "spies" and Hungarian "saboteurs." Old soon became known as the "hangman of Budapest." Last week...
...officer of the Austrian army sat down one day in 1922 to write a panoramic novel about the decline & fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. At his death, 20 years later, Robert Musil had completed 2,000 pages. His work, The Man Without Qualities, was still unfinished, but he had written enough to persuade enthusiastic European critics that Musil had been at work on one of the most searching post-mortems of modern fiction. Now, something like the first fifth of his novel has been translated into English...
...Without Qualities is a satirical account of social and moral hollowness. The old Austro-Hungarian aristocracy is going bourgeois, while the middle class yearns to be aristocratic; meanwhile, a muscular and gullible type that Continental writers like to call the "mass man" is pushing his way, for better or worse, to the front of the stage. Musil's satire has a deadpan deadliness. Without a flicker of visible distaste, he simply lets his characters talk themselves into positions of advanced absurdity...
About three times a week, Hungarian-born Sandor Szabo heaves his 225-lb. frame into a Los Angeles wrestling ring and there, under the eyes of a ring and TV crowd, grunts and grimaces for half an hour. From Hungary to California, he has been specializing in step-over toe holds, ankle-drop takedowns, flying mares and other bone crushers for some 30 years. But last week 42-year-old Wrestler Szabo was wistfully eying a new career as a popular singer...
Bartok: Contrasts (Robert Mann, violin; Stanley Drucker, clarinet; Leonid Hambro, piano; Bartok). Three short Bartok movements-a fantastic little march, a bluesy interlude and a dazzling dance finale-provide an easy and agreeable introduction to the work of the modern Hungarian master. Performance: excellent...