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...will have both unfiltered high frequencies and unrumbled lows. Hardly comparable to the sound of the LP era, they nevertheless restore a forgotten adequacy of the sonic -and artistic-achievements of the past. As a result, nearly forgotten singers like Conchita Supervia, Fernando de Lucia and Maria Nemeth will be resurrected and sent along to collectors in their original sonic quality...
Happy enough to be outside the cells, Hungarian intellectuals, traditionally an enthusiastically undisciplined bunch, avoided provoking fresh trouble; for one thing, they know that Soviet tanks are always ready to rumble into the city. As Laszlo Nemeth, a respected non-Communist author, puts it: "We Hungarians live today in a new apartment block which many people find ugly. It became clear in 1956 that the block cannot be demolished. While we wait behind the façade for its transformation into something better, let us at least make our own flats as habitable...
Right As Robespierre. In The Enemy, a loyal young Hungarian Communist gradually puts out the eye of his own conscience after he is told that one of his four closest friends and associates is a secret enemy of the state and must be ferreted out. Comrade Nemeth must choose between 1) his best friend. 2) his fiancee-mistress. 3) a religious-minded old spinster. 4) a battle-scarred party veteran. Feverish with party zeal. Nemeth first fingers the religious old lady as a "reactionary clericalist...
...infected with suspicion. Nemeth cannot be sure that the right head has fallen. An antiparty joke seals the fate of the old party fighter, and Nemeth sends his best friend to jail because his office accounts do not balance. Righteous as Robespierre. Nemeth finally convinces himself that his Russian-born mistress is really a White Russian and denounces her. The girl commits suicide, and for a moment-but a moment only-Comrade Nemeth sees himself for the monster he has become...
...Appointment of the week: Abraham Nemeth, 36, to the mathematics department of the University of Detroit and to a personal victory in a long and painful fight. Nemeth, born blind, started out to be a psychologist. He earned an M.A. at Columbia University, switched to mathematics. Working as a clerk by day, he studied at Brooklyn College at night, eventually quit his job to study full time at Columbia for his doctorate. Meanwhile, he devised a simplified code to help other blind math students. Last week, having filled in as an instructor at Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart...