Magyar Szemle (Hungarian Review), Vol. XII., Nos. 5–6., June 2003, Budapest.
Editor-in-Chief: Gyula Kodolányi. Published by Magyar Szemle Foundation. Publisher: György Granasztói.
The Best of the Work. Editor’s Note by Gyula Kodolányi.
Viktor Orbán, Former Prime Minister, Budapest. The Values of Christian Democracy. Christianity and its values have had a constructive role in recent Hungarian society, and Christianity as a European fundament should also be included in European Constitution.
Péter Ákos Bod, economist, Former Chairman of the Hungarian National Bank, Budapest. One Year Is Gone, There Is One More Left. The economic policy of the Medgyessy Government lacks a profile. After a year of irresponsible spending, a tightening situation and the norms of the EU may have to do the fashioning.
Sándor Czakó, journalist, Decs. A Long Journey from Home to Home, Part II. A century of the various Gipsy groups, their cultural, social and professional differences, in the rural town of Decs, in Tolna County.
Antall Czettler, historian, Brugg, Switzerland. Operation Torch, Part III. The Casablanca Conference. Hungarian historians seldom consider the significance of events in North Africa in World War II, except for Rommel’s failed expedition. Here is a detailed story of the Allied occupation of Tunis, the Casablanca Conference, and its implications for the future of Europe, based on American, English, French and German records.
Bálint Török, journalist, Budapest. Colourful Eminence. Domokos Szent-Iványi (1898–1980), who placed his memoirs under embargo until 2005, may well prove to be one of the outstanding statesmen of 20th century Hungary. His obscurity was defined by the two totalitarian powers against which he worked. Before 1944, as a grey eminence and master of conspiracy, in the cabinet office of Regent Horthy. After 1945, as the withdrawn strategist of the anti-Soviet parties.
László Ablonczy, Former Director of the Hungarian National Theatre, Budapest–Paris. Eye-Witnesses: The Signing of the Peace Treaties of Paris in February 1947. Major Hungarian writers, as diplomats and delegation members, recorded their observations at the ceremony of the Treaties, so unfair to Hungary. The memoirs and press reports draw a rich tableau.
Attila Szepesi, poet, editor, Budapest. Old Follies. In his new piece of a series on forgotten cultural values and curiosities, the author writes on the times of Mihály Vitéz Csokonai, the late 18th century lyric poet.
Gyula Kodolányi, writer, Editor-in-Chief, Magyar Szemle, Budapest. America’s Time. The American Sixties and Seventies had a formative effect for the emerging generation of European and Hungarian artists – a time when America’s cultural creativity reached its peak in the last wave of modernism.
Gábor Czakó, novelist and essayist. Blind Relief. Piece from the Hungarian Horror Tales series of short grotesque stories illustrated by Ferenc Banga, the designer of Magyar Szemle.
1% Metaphysics. This time György Szabados has selected a passage from Ortega y Gasset.
Books and Events
Gáspár Gróh. The Love of Truth. A new book of essays on recent writing, including a personal memoir, appeared by Mátyás Domokos, the senior figure of Hungarian literary critics, on his 75th birthday. Our critic celebrates the author and the book. (Szembesítés, Nap Kiadó, Budapest, 2003).
Ádám Erdész. From Support to Banning. Review of a monograph on the intellectual trends and the ideological persecution of Mozgó Világ (A Moving World, 1975–83), a seminal cultural monthly. (Németh György, A Mozgó Világ története, Palatinus, Budapest, 2002).
Antal Babus. I Battled for the People and the Populist Writers On the selected correspondence of 20th century essayist and political writer Géza Féja. (Féja Géza levelezése. Nap Kiadó, Budapest, 2002).
Mihály Kubinszky. Transylvania: the Architect’s Destiny. Our architectural columnist – the recent recipient of the Széchenyi Prize – reviews Anthony Gall’s monograph on the unique artist and writer of Hungarian art nouveau, Károly Kós. (Kós Károly, Mundus, Budapest, 2002).
Katalin Metz. The Universe Is the Measure. Our theatre columnist saw a performance of After Midnight, directed by the outstanding Paris choreographer and dancer József Nagy (Josef Nadj), and danced by himself and his Kanizsa Group (Éjfél után, Trafó, Budapest).
Klára Tóth. The Wedding, the Bride and the Forest. A survey of last year’s Hungarian art films
Christoph Böhr. On the Vision of Christian Democracy. The Vice Chairman of the German CDU examines the new European and German challenges that modern Christian Democracy has to answer.
Géza Jeszenszky. Mars and Venus, America and Europe – A Quarrel or a Divorce? The former Foreign Minister and Ambassador to Washington reports and comments on the two May memoranda issued in Washington on the need of revival in Euro-Atlantic relations – one issued by CSIS and signed by a group including Madeleine Albright, Zbyigniew Brzezinski, Lawrence Eagleburger, Alexander Haig, Lee Hamilton and Sam Nunn, the other issued by the Brookings Institute and signed by Ronald Asmus, James Dobbins and Charles Kupchan.
This issue of Magyar Szemle is illustrated with video film stills and photo shots of József Nagy (Josef Nadj)’s mixed media dance play After Midnight.
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