Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2012 (24. évfolyam, 1-50. szám)

2012-04-06 / 14. szám

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This photo here shows folk costumes that people wear just for special occasions today. Today women wear casual dresses for sprinkling, not folk costumes. Also, men sprinkle with cologne, not with water. A couple of decades ago men poured water on women in rural areas and women changed their clothes after each sprinkling. Boys often dragged girls to the well and poured water on them with pail. Sometimes they washed them in creek. The possible reason for this very old tradition is that people believed in the cleaning, healing and fertility effect of water. Easter is a 2-day holiday in Hungary. On Monday boys and men visit all of their women relatives, friends, neighbors, often even if they are not close friends. Boys in small groups, fathers with their sons, or single men leave early in the morning and their “tour” last all day long. They greet girls and women with shorter - longer poems (mostly with a funny poem about “Eastern sprinkling”) and sprinkle them with cologne. Women must be well-prepared, they treat men with dessert and beverages - and with hand-painted eggs. Women usually prepare in the previous days by cleaning up the house thoroughly, decorating, cooking and painting a couple dozen eggs. There is a competition among young girls - who gets the most “sprinklers” wins. It is a shame if the girl is not ready early morning when the first visitor rings the bell. The result? Women wear more then a dozen of different colognes by Monday evening, and sometimes the alcoholic beverages are harmful for men also. Many times, sprinkling continues on the next day in the work­ing places and women wait the evening desperately to wash our hair. Egg painting There are many different painting method alive. The simplest way is to cook the egg envelopped into a dented leaf, in painting water. The covered part of the egg remains white and will show the pattern of the leaf. Painting liquid can be made from onion skin, wild pear, green walnut or other vegetables yielding different natural colors. Sometimes women “write the egg”. They draw folk patterns on the egg by melted wax and put the eggs into painting after this. The egg remains white below the wax and will show the pattern. But the most beautiful eggs are painted by hand with different colors following traditional folk patterns. hungarotips.com Easter Sprinkling Rhyme Bright and early, to the road I took, Both food and water, I forsook. On my shoulder, a satchel heavy, My feet -worn to the knees - no longer steady. Half the world over, have I traveled, round and round, And seen pretty “flowers,”- so many, many, abound. The most beautiful “flower,” Just now I came upon, This “flower” - I could not wait to sprinkle on. Red Easter egg, & snow-white bunny, A kiss I’ll earn for sprinkling YOU-my little honey! jcu.edu Sokol Insurance Agency * Lie # 772323 “I have written my thesis with my best knowledge I had at the time, and I never intended to pla­giarize. However, I will accept the decision of the (University) Senate that has withdrawn my doctorate. But this has got noth­ing to do with me being a presi­dent,” he said Friday. Schmitt, a former Olympic fencing champion, wrote his dissertation in 1992 for the Uni­versity of Physical Education, which is now part of Semmelweis University in Budapest. In January 2012, the Hungar­ian HVG weekly reported that a large part of Schmitt’s disserta­tion was copied. A university investigation also found that large parts of it were plagiarized. A committee said last week that more than 200 pages of the 215-page document showed “partial similarity” to other works or were direct trans­lations. The university stripped the president of his doctorate Thurs­day. “Since the former candidate’s doctoral dissertation is based on lengthy literal translations, it does not meet the professional and ethical criteria of the ‘dis­sertation prepared using scien­tific methods’ requirement for obtaining a university doctorate,” the university’s investigators said in a report. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said it was up to the president to decide what to do. “Nobody except him can decide,” Orbán said in a radio interview Friday. Schmitt was elected by the parliament for a five-year term in 2010. cnn.com 818 981-8424 Budapest, Hungary (CNN) — Hungarian President Pal Schmitt resigned Monday, days after vowing he would not quit over allegations that he plagiarized parts of his doctoral dissertation. Protesters had called last week for him to step down over the accusation. “In this situation, when my personal issue splits my beloved country instead of uniting it, I feel it is my duty to end my service, and to resign,” he told parliament Monday. Schmitt insisted Monday that his conscience was clear, repeating an assertion he made in an interview aired Friday on public access television station Ml. He said Monday that he was prepared to go to court to prove that he was right. Private Reception for Visiting Hun­garian dignitary Dr. Janos Horvath Visiting Hungarian dignitary Dr. Janos Horvath, President of the Hungarian National Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, was received at a private reception by Hungarian Ambassador and Consul General for the Western States, Balazs Bokor, and Fire Commissioner and Attorney Andrew Friedman. During the reception, the 91-year-old President recounted his experiences with both the Nazis and the Communists. In 1944, he was sentenced to death by the Nazis, and in 1952, he was sent to prison for four years by the Communists. During the 1956 revolution, he escaped to the United States and was a University Professor in Indiana until his return to Hungary in 1997. He is the oldest member of the Hungarian Parliament. Andrew Friedman, Dr. Janos Horvath, Balazs Bokor Our advertisers make it possible for the HÍRLAP to appear. Please support us by using their products and services! Április 6, 2012

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