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...line of their pro-Wallace state- ment read: "The whole nation, stirred to teeming excitement by his eloquence, has tingled in every polyglot branch: English and French, Irish and Italian, German and Polish, Hungarian and Japanese, black and white, Swede and Magyar, all have mouthed his name in ecstasy, flnging the wonderful sound to the blue God-given skies until the vast ness of America roared...
...appalled at the tyrannical influence of the German professors who, he snorted, "couldn't even speak Hungarian." Determined to develop "the natural mother tongue of every Hungarian composer," he teamed with another ardent nationalist, Bela Bartók, and armed with primitive Edison recording machines, roamed the Magyar countryside and collected 12,000 folk songs...
...Ferdinand Celine. This scabrous recollection of a wretched Parisian childhood, first published in 1936, has become the schoolbook of black humorists from Genet to Bruce Jay Friedman. The new, unexpurgated translation is by Ralph Manheim. RAKOSSY, by Cecelia Holland. A wild fictional ride through 16th century Hungary in which Magyar does in Magyar until the Turkish invaders put a temporary end to it all at the battle of Mohacs...
...Cecelia Holland. A wild fictional ride through 16th century Hungary in which Magyar does in Magyar until the Turkish invaders put a temporary end to it all at the battle of Mohacs...
Novelist Holland's hero helps explain the Magyar weakness. The great Baron Rakóssy and the other lords have just crushed a peasant rebellion and are now squabbling with each other. Rakóssy has his eye on Catharine de Buñez, who is related to the Habsburg emperor, and he gets her; for good measure, he seduces her sister and slays her brother-in-law. He also has his eye on the neighboring castle of Vrath and gets it as well, by trickery rather than force of arms. By this time, not only the peasants...