Hungarian Review September 2015

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Neither Vladimir Bukovski nor Leszek Kolakowski figured on the guest list for the seminars of St Antony's College, Oxford, and Conquest's book on the great famine was not ordered for its library. By contrast, Polish and Hungarian economists would appear in shiny brown suits, lecturing, beards waggling, on possibilities of market development under socialism, be effusively thanked for their "thought-provoking" remarks, and be discovered subsequently spending their expenses on female underwear in Marks and Spencer
Norman STONE, Being Right at the Wrong Moment: Robert Conquest
{Antall} knew and accepted that he might well die in the course of fulfilling his chosen destiny. This knowledge seems to have marshalled remarkable reserves of strength in him: for three years, he had a perfect command even during the different phases - some better, some worse - of his battle with cancer.
Gyula KODOLAnYI, May 1990: József Antall Launches His Government
Today, Europe does not know what to do... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Neither Vladimir Bukovski nor Leszek Kolakowski figured on the guest list for the seminars of St Antony's College, Oxford, and Conquest's book on the great famine was not ordered for its library. By contrast, Polish and Hungarian economists would appear in shiny brown suits, lecturing, beards waggling, on possibilities of market development under socialism, be effusively thanked for their "thought-provoking" remarks, and be discovered subsequently spending their expenses on female underwear in Marks and Spencer
Norman STONE, Being Right at the Wrong Moment: Robert Conquest
{Antall} knew and accepted that he might well die in the course of fulfilling his chosen destiny. This knowledge seems to have marshalled remarkable reserves of strength in him: for three years, he had a perfect command even during the different phases - some better, some worse - of his battle with cancer.
Gyula KODOLAnYI, May 1990: József Antall Launches His Government
Today, Europe does not know what to do with its Christian legacy. The relationship of the people to their own religious traditions is nowhere more ambivalent than in Europe. The Jm, the Muslim, the Hindu or the Buddhist who no longer prartices his faith will hardly ever take a hostile stance against the belief of his forefathers. In this respect, even the Christians of America stand in stark contrast to their European counterparts.
László TROCSANYI, Rule of Law: The Ascendancy of Conscience in Europe
The Austro-Hungarian monarch's constant fear of the Germans, and specifically of Emperor Wilhelm U, forced him, his family and closest circle to act with the utmost secrecy. Meetings were held deep inside imperial castles or on castle grounds which were completely sealed off and under military protection. Prince Sixtus travelled with a false passport, under a false name, and all scripts in the Emperor-King's handwriting were torn up and burned after use.
Tibor FRANK, "C'est la paix!" - The Sixtus Letters and the Peace Initiative of Emperor Karl I
Kolla became probably the only person in this big, wide world who visited the United States after he died: somehow or other, they managed to smuggle his mummified body across the ocean. The cadaver was lugged around the country by itinerant showmen, along with a live, twelve-breasted woman, a sixty-toothed hermaphrodite, and a six-headed turtle that could be spun on its back { }
Attila BALÁZS, Soldier, Salted
Once crowned, Béla III came under pressure to demonstrate his loyalty to Western Christianity, and he passed the test with flying colours. He took the initiative by supporting new French monastic orders, particularly the Cistercians and the Premonstratensians, already settled in Hungary under the reign of his father, in their efforts to gain further ground throughout the country. He provided the freshly Recruited intelleauals of his Chancellery with a university education in Paris, and established branching relations with European countries near and far.
Mária PROKOPP, The Castle Chapd in Esztergom, the Royal Seat of Béla III Vissza