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...adage, "He who has a Hungarian for a friend does not need an enemy," may well be a national slander, but it proves true enough in the case of János Rakóssy, the tough, devious hero of this historical novel. The Hungarians were latecomers to Western Europe, drifting in from southern Russia in the 9th century, and they were so often friendless that it is a wonder they lasted at all. Rakóssy is set in one of the worst times of trouble for the Magyars-when Suleyman the Magnificent and his Turkish Janissaries swept...
...STRING QUARTETS NOS. 1 AND 2 (Crossroads). Chamber music, particularly that of the 20th century, is often an acquired taste. But Leo Janáĉek wrote hummable, folk-flavored and dramatic pieces for strings. His first quartet was inspired by Tolstoy's chilling story The Kreutzer Sonata and is played with special eloquence and style by the Janáĉek String Quartet...
Nicely-Nicely Johnson. From then on, it was a whirl of receptions and dinners. Imelda, dressed for each occasion in one of 40 butterfly-sleeved Filipino ter-nos that she had brought along, was usually the center of attention. Her yellow terno caught Lyndon Johnson's eye. "That is my favorite color too-yellow," he told her. "Actually," she confided later, "my favorite color is pink. But he is the President...
...agricultural experts toured the backwoods of Czechoslovakia; Norwegian Mayor Brynjulf Bull concluded a scientific agreement in Budapest; and a delegation of Polish parliamentarians arrived in Brussels to have a look at the Common Market. Poland's Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki turned up in Stockholm; Hungarian Boss János Kádár talked to Tito in Bled; the Shah of Iran left Rumania for an eight-day state visit to Yugoslavia. No sooner had Rumanian Postal Minister Mihai Balanescu arrived in Paris to inspect French telecommunications than Kentucky Governor Ed Breathitt popped up in Poznan...
BRAHMS: SONATAS FOR CELLO AND PIANO, NOS. 1 AND 2 (Mercury). Cellist Janos Starker and Pianist Gyorgy Sebok play the duets with the broad range of feeling demanded, especially in the great F major sonata (No. 2). But they never rhapsodize. Among his fellow romantics, Brahms was a classicist; so, one gathers from these banked fires, is Starker...