Word: zoltan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Magyars love to gamble. After Communist austerity shuttered Budapest's gambling joints, the boys in Szabadsag Ter (Liberty Square) offered outdoor odds of four to one against President Zoltan Til-dy's chances of surviving his precarious alliance with the Communists. Fourteen months ago, when he weathered the storm that whisked ex-Premier Ferenc Nagy into exile, 3,000,000 forints (about $250,000) in bets changed hands. The boys on Szabadsag Ter should have waited...
...been 50 years since the twin cities of Buda and Pest had been welded into one, and the city fathers wanted some commemorative music. They chose a black-bearded Hungarian named Zoltan Kodaly (rhymes with so high) to write it. The Psalmus Hungaricus that he wrote for the occasion is still considered by some critics the finest choral work of the 20th Century...
Last week it was the city's turn to honor the composer. In the cool, wide Romanesque gardens of Budapest's Karolyi Palace, concertgoers gathered to pay Zoltan Kodaly homage on the 25th birthday of his best-but not best known-work. First they heard the Budapest Symphony Orchestra galumph pleasantly through the concert suite from Kodaly's bright, bumptiously good-humored opera...
What annoyed the Russians was 1) the way the Nepszava (People's Voice) smuggled papers into Budapest, and 2) Népszava's staff, a Who's Who of the Hungarians Moscow hates most. Editor in chief was Zoltan Pfeiffer, head of the Independence Party in the coalition government that was squeezed out by the Reds a year ago. Ferenc Nagy (rhymes with dodge), ex-Premier and leader of the Smallholders Party, now a small holder (130 acres) in Virginia, was a contributing editor. Others : Exile Tibor Eckhardt, onetime head of the U.S. "Free Hungarian" movement; Charles...
...laudable as his idea of how to go about it (filming O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electro) was regrettable. John Ford's The Fugitive drowned in romantic beauty and in solemn unreality, but had majesty of ambition and continuous intensity of treatment. In The Macomber Affair, Zoltan Korda made movie sense out of a piece of Hemingway's fiction...