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...DIED. GYULA OBERSOVSZKY, 74, Hungarian poet and journalist who played a leading role in the failed 1956 revolt against Soviet rule; in Budapest. On the second day of the uprising, Obersovszky founded an independent newspaper, Truth, and after the revolt's repression launched a samizdat called We Are Alive. Sentenced to hang for organizing demonstrations against the Red Army, Obersovszky was saved after the intervention of Western intellectuals, including Bertrand Russell...
This sense of outrage lurks in the shadows of his texts. In Kingdom, Hungarian emigre Nicholas Morath is drawn ever deeper into clandestine missions he doesn't understand to stop his country's drift into collaboration with the Nazis. Though Furst sees himself as a political novelist, he has chosen a storyteller's genre, and his books do not stand on a soapbox. His tales have got leaner as he keeps refining them down, explaining less, saying more in fewer words. While there is a moment in every book when some character cuts to the bone to pinpoint the evil...
Siilats, the Estonian national record holder, and Gyorffy, the Hungarian national champion, constitute the beginning of what could become a Crimson Eastern Europe high-jump dynasty. Gyorffy's success was likely an attraction in Siilats' decision to come...
...working. George Soros was at home in New York's Westchester County, inside a snow-wrapped, Gatsbyesque dream house, wrestling with the problem. It was as quiet as a bank vault, except for the occasional squeak of a chair, the ringing of the phone and Soros' soft, Hungarian-accented voice talking the problem through. He sipped at some hot tea, and when he put the cup down, that made some noise...
...series of maneuvers. Who would have thought geese could be trained to do anything? And when you realize that they aren't really doing much, you think that there may be a reason no one has done it before. The most remarkable thing about the act was seeing Hungarian fourth-generation circus performer Istvan Toth, who stands 27 inches tall, almost completely hidden by the flock...