Word: budapests
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...Budapest monthly Muvelt Nep (Cultured People) laid out for its readers the Hungarian Communist line on dancing. The waltz and polka are "traditionally democratic." The tango, fox trot and English waltz, though "reflections of the capitalist decline . . . cannot be classed with American dances. They may now be danced with taste." But the samba, swing, boogie-woogie, rumba, conga and the like "are tools of aggression let loose by the bosses of America against human culture and progress...
...Rosenberg is a 5 ft. 3 dynamo and a resolute wearer of outlandishly feminine hats which cover one of the shrewdest heads in public life. A Hungarian-her father made furniture for the Emperor-who was brought to the U.S. at ten, she has never quite disposed of her Budapest accent. She has been alternately charming or browbeating people into accord since her junior year at New York's Wadleigh High School. There, during World War I, she persuaded boys at two neighboring high schools to end their strike over compulsory military drill which lengthened the school...
Managers of state-owned clothing shops displayed mannikins dressed in the jampec style, along with the warning that "everybody who imitates this American fashion madness belongs to the capitalist U.S. in spirit." One shop window (see cut) showed a gorilla next to a jampec and a telegram from the Budapest zoo's monkey house protesting against the insult of comparing a jampec to one of their kind...
...native Budapest, Dr. von Meduna was one of the first to use shock treatment (with the drug Metrazol) for psychoses. He tried carbon dioxide with no success. Soon after he settled in Chicago in 1939 (and dropped the "von"), Dr. Meduna decided that psychoses were too deep-seated to reach with carbon dioxide. But neuroses offered him a promising field...
Schneider, who will perform under the auspices of the Pierian Sodality of 1808, was formerly a member of the Budapest String Quartet...