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...this city of 1,500,000, the only living people in the battered, rubble-strewn streets were the police and Russian soldiers. A voice shouted: 'All those who are working now are Kadar men.' At five minutes to 3 the windows opened, and people sang the national anthem. Everybody was standing bareheaded and singing...
...spread like wildfire. All over Budapest there were demonstrations. Student manifestoes demanded religious freedom, the release of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, the public trial of Rakosi and his lieutenants, sweeping economic reforms. One demanded that the Russians explain what they had done with Hungarian uranium. The Marseillaise and the Kossuth anthem (after Kossuth, another hero of 1848) were sung in the streets. Thousands of cadets, later joined by 800 Hungarian officers, swung out of the military academy to join the students. As if by magic, hundreds of placards appeared bearing slogans: RUSSIANS GO HOME. LET US FOLLOW THE POLES...
...manifesto demanding complete freedom of speech and press, a new Hungarian government, release of political prisoners, and the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary. The national flag - minus the Red star and hammer crossed by an ear-of-wheat emblem - was draped around the statue. The national anthem was sung...
Foam Rubber. On the festive opening night (Danish national anthem, speeches, cheers) the featured work was La Sylphide, choreographed by famed August Bournonville in 1836 and passed down virtually unchanged from lip to toe. It begins with a round of mimed action during which some observers usually expect the dancers to burst into recitative and aria at any moment. The white-clad sylph (Margrethe Schanne), her supernatural character implicit in the tiny wings at her waist, falls in love with the Scotch farm boy (Henning Kronstam); but when the family arrives, she dashes over to the fireplace and literally whisks...
After exactly five minutes of spontaneous enthusiasm, a woman with more courage than talent sang the national anthem. To the surprise and discomfit of everyone, she reached the final high note, clung to it desperately and retreated. There was a sign of relief from the audience...