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...would appear on the doorstep of fellow mathematicians without warning--a frail, disheveled, elderly man, hopped up on amphetamines and wearing a ratty raincoat--and announce, in a thick Hungarian accent, "My mind is open." For a day, or a week or a month, the man or woman who answered the knock would have to take nonstop care of this helpless guest who couldn't figure out how to cut a grapefruit or wash his underwear--and in return would be permitted the exhausting, exhilarating experience of following the thought processes of Paul Erdos, the most prolific and arguably...
...what happened. Things would be all right, as they always have been. "My parents are from South America," she told me. "They know what it's like to live in an unstable country." And, indeed what can I know about the situation, speaking even fewer words of Hungarian than my friend? Thousands of miles from where the events of the next months will unfold, how sound can any judgement on the Kosovars...
Lynn Redgrave, Gods and Monsters: The Golden Globes honored Redgrave but more for her lifetime body of work than her performance as the Hungarian housekeeper of openly gay film director James Whale in the 30s. It's a strange role that shows off Redgrave's remarkable grasp of her craft, but she controversy of the film's subject matter...
However, whether it is Ivy League, national or international competition, the Hungarian's toughest competitor is herself...
...elderly man tells his grandchildren a primal tale of abduction and escape. It could be a Steven Spielberg film, and is: Spielberg served as executive producer of this expertly assembled memoir of the Holocaust years. Five Hungarian Jews, including California Congressman Tom Lantos (the grandfather), recount their near death adventures with passion and great storytelling skill. A woman recalls thinking that the Nazis had robbed her of family, money, dignity--"but they're not gonna take my soul." That collective soul lives on here...