Word: magyarized
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...have molded distinctive national characteristics. From their proximity to Western Europe and to each other in the north's most densely populated country, the Danes are the merriest, laziest, most sophisticated and animated (their compulsive small talk is known as snak). The non-Aryan Finns are of nomadic Magyar stock and are caricatured as somnolent, introverted and dour. The isolated Norwegians have a reputation for being tough, brave and simple. The Swedes, who were greatly influenced in the 19th century by Germany, are thought of as stiff, shrewd and neurotic. If a Norwegian invents something, according to one theory...
Upstairs Bar. Even the Communist bloc has its problems with prostitution, while indignantly denying that it exists. In Hungary, Budapest's few whores are often booked up nights in advance by visiting Austrian and West German businessmen. "Elisabeth of the Duna," a witty little Magyar who adorns the upstairs bar of the Hotel Duna, is so famous that guards on the Austrian border ask travelers, "Have you anything to declare? Did you see Elisabeth...
Hungary's festival pales by comparison with the old days, when Magyar aristocrats would spit on a 100-forint note (worth about $12.50), slap it on a gypsy's forehead, and demand passionate violin-playing until the spittle dried and the note fell off. But all things considered, it is gay enough. At Budapest's Press Ball last week, young men in stovepipe trousers and girls in daringly décolleté dresses performed a writhing twist that onlookers pointed to with a touch of pride as their own "dirty twist." For the monster masked balls that...
George Blecher '62 has received the Ross Prize for his short story. A Trip to the Magyar. The $500 award is given to the best short story by a Harvard undergraduate written during the year...
...villa Vista Bella, rented every summer since 1957 by Joe Kennedy (for $2,000 a month) at Cap d'Antibes on the French Riviera. The interior of the villa is as dark as a cave, and is an idle mixture of Louis XV, Louis XVI, Chinese and Magyar decorative styles. Plumbing is in the classic French tradition: huge tiled arenas with a tangled network of pipes and valves from which issue alarming gurgles and lukewarm, pale-beige water. The main attraction of the house is its distance from the crowded resorts at Cannes and Juan-les-Pins...