Word: vajda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group of leading Czech economists recently blasted nationalization and collectivization, and called for the introduction of a price system based on supply and demand. In Hungary, Trade Expert Imre Vajda last month deplored COMECON's "regrettable sluggishness" and "antiquated concepts," called for more "endeavor to cooperate with capitalist enterprises...
...swaybacked, dewlapidated Italian stage dog called Caligola. The spectator is continually reminded that inside the dog there is the villain, and the recurrent after-image of Ustinov doing all those doggy things is unfailingly good for an arf. Actor Ustinov, held in leash by Director Ladislao (Marcelino) Vajda, does pretty well for a mere human being, but of course he is not nearly so funny as Caligola. The dog wags Vajda's Tail...
...Pledge (TIME, March 30, 1959). Inevitably, people will say they liked the book better. It was a thoughtful study of the police mind and the one thing that destroys it: human feeling. In the movie, on the other hand, thanks partly to Director Ladislao Vajda, Duerrenmatt's Gothic involutions have been pressed as flat as the celluloid they lie on. Even so, the film has an original (if somewhat perverted) air about it, and works up an uncommon amount of suspense...