Word: zoltan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Living well is the best revenge.'' It was something he had obviously read up on in the books he devoured as a child, feeding the fantasy life that he turned into elegant reality. He took his two talented younger brothers along with him on his journey. Zoltan, saturnine and hypochondriacal, never left home without his oxygen inhaler and his health foods ("Vair is my kelp?" he once demanded of a bewildered porter), but was a first-class action-film director (The Jungle Book, Sahara). Vincent, Author Michael Korda's father, was an art director who could...
Solti studied in Budapest with Bela Bartok, Zoltan Kodaly, and Ernst von Dohnanyi. Originally a pianist, he has since conducted virtually every major orchestra in the West. He became music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1969, and was knighted in 1971, when he left the Royal Opera House...
...Hungarian-Americans oppose Carter's decision. "The crown can do more good on public display in Hungary, where it is a symbol of historical and religious significance," argues Zoltan Gombos, editor of a chain of Hungarian newspapers based in Cleveland. There has been no accurate opinion poll among the diverse community of America's 3 million Hungarians. But so far, the loudest response has been protest. "The crown was given over to the Americans for trust and safeguarding until Hungary is really free again," says Leslie E. Acsay, president of Hungarian House in New York. "But Hungary...