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...rather basic theory of alienation, or so it seemed to Hungarian Poet Gyula Illyes, 63, at a convention of 200 European bards in Budapest. "The division of humanity characterizing our century began with a very prosaic object: the bathtub," proclaimed Illyes. "One part of humanity bathed and the other did not, and these two categories may not sleep in the same bed or eat at the same table." And things got worse, said the poet, when automobiles came along-"those monsters, those separators, little steel cages, the driver sealed in glacial indifference." Alas, the reasonably well-bathed poets listened...
...kept trying. In Connecticut, she had to follow a Hungarian violinist who made everyone cry; one night in the Catskills, her routine was interrupted by round-by-round reports on the Patterson-Johansson fight; in Quebec, she was foil to Kudabux, the Man with the X-Ray Eyes; in Bridgeport, Conn., the manager blared over the loudspeaker...
...blossoming of inner faith, she says, that irresistibly drew her to "the divine serenity of Mozart, which is so close to the bosom of God. I discovered the purity and chastity of his way, the seductive grace, the incredible sweetness." The hardest part, she explains, was taming her "uncivilized Hungarian temperament, cutting back all passion, all effusiveness, all exaggeration, which does not go well with Mozart." Steeped in religious philosophy, she is a radiant, darkly handsome woman who fortifies her self with yoga exercises learned from Violinist Yehudi Menuhin's guru in India, and daily rations of a syrupy...
Even the name Vienna sets up resonances that belong to the past: candlelight, slow waltz music, fiacres, lindentree parks, the Danube and the Prater -a capital jewel in the crown of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, doomed to obliteration by transitional winds. The old Vienna has its surviving spirits, none sturdier than Heimito von Doderer, at 70 Austria's foremost novelist. A courtly and playful Viennese, Von Doderer remembers with fondness the city as it was half a century ago. The Waterfalls of Slunj is his love song to that twilight time, the first of an intended four-volume epic...
Even the Communists of Eastern Europe, who in the past were content to condone China's aberrations in order to gain more leverage from the Sino-So viet split, are now roundly denouncing the Red Chinese as "insane." Hungarian Communist Boss Janos Kadar calls the events in China a "national tragedy." East Germany has accused the Red Chinese of "encouraging the cult of Mao to boundless excesses...