Word: budapests
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...high with sorrows that they overflowed. The scene of the poem might be Paris, with its boulevards and iron-shuttered windows; it might be Berlin or Budapest or Shanghai (the fact happens to be that I wrote it after reading Malraux's novel, Man's Fate, about the Shanghai rebellion of 1927). There are some American details, but the scene was not meant to be and could not have been the United States. Thank God, there hasn't been a revolution here, or the sacrifice of millions of lives. No blood has flowed at home, only printer...
...Koestler was also living in the south of France and working on his brilliant novel about the Russian blood purges, Darkness at Noon. He had never loved France quite so much as then, never been so "achingly conscious of its sweetness and decay." He was a young (36), Budapest-born journalist, a Gentile, a man of political action. He had been a trenchantly pro-Loyalist newspaper correspondent in Spain, where Franco forces had caught him and led him through the streets of Malaga in chains. He had been a member of the Communist party for seven years, had left...
...Goldovsky, who came to the United States in 1930, was born in Moscow, Russia. Most of his musical training was received in Europe, where he studied piano under Leonid Kreutzer, Arthur Schnabel, and Ernest Dohnanyi. He graduated from the Liszt Academy of Music, in Budapest, where he studied composition with Leo Weiner...
...Russia's front as chief of the British Military Mission was Lieut. General Frank Noel Mason MacFarlane, a pukka sahib, the archetype of British sporting soldiery, a man who had stuck pigs in India, raced autos in the Alps, shot grouse in Scotland, worn the kilt in Budapest, and in between times been military attache in Berlin (1937-39) and Army Commander at Gibraltar (1940-41). He thought the Reds were a bit of all right. His report...
Beethoven: Quartet in C Major, Op. 18, No. 2 (Victor; 6 sides; $3.50) and Mozart: Quartet In D Minor (K. 421) (Columbia; 6 sides; $3.50). A pair of superbly tooled chamber-music items, both played by the unsurpassed Budapest Quartet...