Word: hungarian
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...made an extraordinary offer. The Swedish government, in conjunction with the United States, wanted to send someone to occupied Hungary in a attempt to bring out Jews. Sweden, as a neutral country, had a legation in the country and still had some sway with the Nazis and their Hungarian allies. To the chagrin of his family, Wallenberg turned away from the comfort of his life as a dilettante and accepted the offer...
...with all due respect to MF's horendous mutton-chop/Brussel-sprout combo), self-righteousness and radiation experiments. Nationally: yes for health care, Al Gore, and Michael Jordan's new career move; no on guns, the insanity defense and toxic corpses. Internationally: two thumbs up for Lena Olin, Tiger Okoshi, Hungarian dogs, and Russia's new jet-setting Mafia elite (FM lives on the edge.) Two thumbs down for Schoenhof's, France, the Olympics and Russia's new jet-setting Mafia elite (FM doesn't believe in strong-am tactics...
...these setbacks, the charisma of the players carried the production through with verve. Catherine deLima, playing the spirited Rosalinda, dominated the production with her dynamic voice and smirking facial expressions. Particularly charming was the duet in which deLima seduces Edward Upton (Eisenstein, Rosalinda's husband) in disguise, wielding a Hungarian accent and faintly pouting demeanor to entrap him. Upton provided a good counter-weight to deLima's antics, playing the impish and persecuted husband with an infallible good nature. Although Upton's voice suffered under the daunting orchestra and paled in comparison to his buoyant coplayers, his cutesy acting nonetheless...
Dohnanyi modestly ascribes the orchestra's excellence to the diligent work habits and pride instilled under Szell, the Hungarian-born terror who became music director in 1946 and transformed Cleveland from a cultural backwater into one of the orchestral world's powerhouses. Szell's ironfisted discipline brooked no contradiction, and the musicians played for him as if their livelihoods -- if not their lives -- depended on it. "Under Szell they had to be the best," notes Dohnanyi. "With me, they want to be the best...
...combat because of a badly infected finger. He never learned to fire a gun, and his weapons were never loaded -- even when he performed guard duty in a BMW plant. But there he saw laborers conscripted from a branch of the Dachau concentration camp. He also remembers seeing Hungarian Jews being shipped to their death. "The abyss of Hitlerism could not be overlooked," he said. The depredations of the officially atheistic regime led to his conviction that religion was crucial to civilization. "Only the Christian faith had the possibility to heal these people and give a new beginning," he says...