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...church-state agreement had been negotiated by the Bench of Hungarian Bishops independently of the Vatican (TIME, Sept. 11), in the hope of relieving growing Communist pressure on the church. Said the bishops in a pastoral letter read in Budapest churches last Sunday: "We were deeply afflicted, and nothing was left to us but to protest...
...decided that a church with some liberties, however limited, was preferable to no church at all. The negotiations went forward slowly, and they were surrounded by elaborate propaganda designed to prepare for the ultimate decision. Early last month a conference of Hungary's Roman Catholic clergy convened in Budapest, to seize "a great historical opportunity for pacification between church and state." A Cistercian monk named Richard Horvath told the assembled priests: "Thank God the new era has arrived-the age of socialism...
...many a musician is concerned, they gave the intimate and delicate world of chamber music its rudest shock since Beethoven. With his First Quartet, composed in 1908 when he was 27, Bartok stalked into a field of harsh, hybrid harmonies and fierce rhythms that jolted Budapest listeners upright in their seats. In the Second (1917), Third (1927) and Fourth (1928), he cultivated the field; his harmonies became more astringent, the rhythms more incisive, the textures ever tighter. Listeners found much that was either impenetrable or unpalatable, but they also heard tonal colors never produced by four stringed instruments before...
...Three to Budapest...
...also sent three members to observe the conventions of the international Union of Students at Budapest. Their report to the NSA congress brought about the renewal of the no-affiliation resolution, Communist domination of the IUS, it was felt, made cooperation, even on non-political projects, as impossible as it has been in the past...