Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrote a novel about village life and was severely rebuked by the party for attempting to sabotage the People's Democracy. He and some other students wrote and performed a sharp satire on the wreck of Mt. Olympus (i.e., Russian Communism) and were investigated by the AVH, the Hungarian secret police. But the police did nothing to them because the students and intellectuals enjoy a special place in Communist regimes, providing the reservoir of skill and talent on which the bureaucracy continuously draws. A friend remembers Janos as saying before the revolt: "The workers and the peasants hate the regime...
...conquerors swept down from the East to overrun the Hungarian plain, to rape, to pillage and to lay waste the once-gay Danube city of Budapest. This time they were Russian Communists, and close behind them as they marched came another army of political agitators, experts of the secret police, and a parasitic host of Hungarian expatriate Communists. In the first post-war election held on Nov. 4. 1945, the Communists came in a bad third, with only 800,257 votes to stack up against the 2,688,161 votes of the democratic Smallholders Party, which was led by Bela...
When is a Communist not a Communist? Are there Communists in various degrees like good, better, best? Or bad, worse, worst? Or from mild to fanatic? I wonder if Gomulka is less a Communist for having divorced the parent country, or has he perhaps discovered a secret Utopia that compels him to remain essentially a Communist? It is very strange...
...Brien has "consecrated his life to the task of tossing a 16-lb. ball of steel farther than anyone," that he warms up for a contest by "firing himself with hatred" (has he read 1984?), that he fortifies his soul in various mystical ways as if shotputting contained "the secret of the universe," is a source of inspiration for all nonathletes...
...offbeat first novel begins when one of the count's shipmates takes him home for dinner on a shore leave in New Orleans in the early 1900s. The shipmate's sister Hilda, an ash-blonde icicle, melts visibly before the zany hothead. Casimir soon spills his top secret: he is a "Divinely Separated person" who has found a "Unifying Purpose" that will give the human race a healthy substitute for war. "That Unifying Purpose," he says, "has got to have a ritual, a symbolism, an exercise, some world-wide activity that is simple and joyful and harmless...