In the first article in this November 2012 edition of Hungarian Review, our regular columnist Péter Ákos Bod contemplates the missed chances of the Hungarian capital. In his view, the dreams
Missed Changes and New Prospects The Hungarian economy has lately lost ground to its neighbours and economic rivals – a phenomenon I wrote about recently, when I looked at the
On the Eve of the December 2012 Parliamentary Elections NT: Parliamentary elections will take place in Romania on 9 December. What is at stake? ChM: At stake is a power struggle between
PET output in Hungary in numbers: Annual output: 1.8 billion bottles/year, cca: 50,000 tonnesAnnual collection: 12,000 tonnesRecycling: 30–35% of the annual collectionPET material ending up on dumpsites: 38 thousand tonnes
UNESCO and the world of science are celebrating the Centenary of János Szentágothai (d. 1994), the imaginative Hungarian neuro-anatomist, who developed a new, three- dimensional model for the functioning of
Karl Lamers (born 1951), Deputy Chairman (CDU–CSU) of the Defence Committee of the Bundestag since November 2006, and President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly since November 2010, visited Budapest on
Cardinal József Mindszenty was almost the first post-war European figure to become a symbolic victim of totalitarianism. His arrest and trial were almost simultaneous with the Greek crisis, the Truman
An amazing thing, the Gutenberg Galaxy: if it did not exist, it would have to be invented; but as it already exists it ought not to be left to decline
When ten thousand Hungarian refugees first set foot on British shores after the crushing of the 1956 Revolution they found out to their great disappointment that an important factor was
Excerpts (II.) Is it the reader who makes the book? What struck me as incredible while reading 1984 was not the world view of the novel, but the fact that this world
My interest in the English language goes back to 1947 when at the age of thirteen my mother sent me to Sárospatak to learn the tongue of Shakespeare. This was
1 On 14 June 1982, a statue of Béla Bartók was dedicated in Paris. The bronze sculpture by Imre Varga, of which several versions exist, was a gift from Budapest
BARTÓK Gyula Illyés “Harsh discord?” – Yes! They think it thuswhich brings us solace! Yes! Let the violin strings,let singing throats learn curse-clatter of splintering glasscrashing to the ground the
From time to time Hungarians will speak with great pride of the many Hungarian scientists and artists who have won international fame. One thinks perhaps first and foremost of physicians
Learn How to Read For I know well enough a time will come when we will have to crawl back along the roads we hastened over, I take this knife
I am reading and re-reading Tony Brinkley’s Gomorrah. A long poem, which remains mostly oblique and mysterious when we read it for the first time. Palpably concrete in its images and
I was thinking of the day most splendid till I saw what the not-day exhibited.– WALT WHITMAN 1. Balancing the wind gusts – the gold pointless, ground to powder – Here
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