Word: budapests
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...Budapest's Rokus Hospital, Staff Neurologist Endre Kubanyis whipped out a two-volume treatise on trigeminal neuralgia, in honor of the leader's birthday...
...Laborers at a Budapest crane factory attended the factory's political school in twice their usual number, informed one another and the press that "the most beautiful experience of their lives had been their first meeting with Comrade Rakosi in the winter...
Even though the Budapest Quartet had an off-day, it was able to give an exciting and often brilliant performance. Occasional wrong notes, inexact pick-ups, and tonal aberrations made it all too clear that Messrs. Roisman, Gorodetzky, Kroyt, and Schneider were not in top form last Sunday afternoon, but their interpretive mastery, their ability to immerse themselves in the music they play, brought cheers and foot-stamping from the capacity audience in Sanders Theatre...
...every ensemble can move from a Haydn quartet to the viscous impressionism of Ravel without losing some authenticity en route. But the Budapest group played Ravel's F Major Quartet with all the suavity of tone and relaxation of phrasing that the piece required. In thematic structure and general outline the work is similar to the better-known Debussy quartet, but the contrasts seem much sharper here. The long, meditative third movement and the very short, intense finale demand virtuosity as well as restraint--two qualities for which the Budapest Quartet is famous. Ravel's skillful use of the quartet...
Uncle Tom made news behind the Iron Curtain. A new edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the classic anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, went on sale in Budapest as the newspaper Magyar Nemzet assured its readers that "in Truman's America they try to hide this book...