Reformátusok Lapja, 1972 (72. évfolyam, 1-7. szám)
1972-03-01 / 3. szám
REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA 5 Do DL. U, unaarianó Once mighty Magyars, facing decadency, See how the blood of Árpád degenerates! See you not heaven, stem, revengeful, Scourging your country with fierce misfortune? Through bloody battles, wars of eight centuries, Stood Buda’s bastions, marr’d but immovable, Though countless times in senseless fury Fierce on your folk and yourselves you trampled. Believe me, evil, modern debauchery, Will waste the fort; foul, viperous prodigies Gnaw even now those walls that often Gazed in defiance at ruthless sieges. Once, once, long since, reverse could not ruin you, — Neither the wild Khan’s hordes out of Tartary, No, nor the Turk’s world-scourging power, Sweeping the East with its fire and slaughter. Zápolya’s brute age fail’d, too, to strangle you; Foil’d were the hands of low-lurking murderers; Still through the flames of strife you flinch’d not; Bathed in the blood of your sacred kinfolk. Since ancient virtues, heroes inflexible, Struggled and led you during your buffetings, You, like Alcides, won in wrestling; Shaking your battle-axe high above you. Slow poison now, slow death is decaying you; Yea, look, the oak, once proudly recalcitrant While standing firm through northern tempests, Wastes at the root now with inward maggots: Weak breezes soon can fell it in overthrow! Each country, thus, as prop and foundation-stone, Must have a sound heart; Rome, when rotten, Fell, and was forced into base submission. Lo, now, an ugly Sybarite skeleton, Rend you the gay-hued vestments Hungarian, Out of your countiy’s ravaged bulwarks Building a palace in which to idle. All knightly robes and speech of our ancestors You tire of, yea, you cede for things alien, And trample down our guardian spirit, Wasting your heart on a childish puppet. Otherwise flamed our valour all-thundering Through the ancestral battles of Attila, When half the world, fierce-brow’d, he challenged, Trampling in anger on trembling nations. With other folk did Árpád, our ancestor, Consecrate Danube’s banks with heroic blood! With other Magyars, valiant Hunyad Drove back the armies of strong Mohammed! Alas! This fate whelms all things terrestrial! We groan beneath stern hardship’s vicissitudes; Our fleeting fortune wantons ever, — Playfully lifts us, then smites us earthward. Time’s iron hand uproots down the centuries All things that are; tall towers of Ilion, Proud Carthage, too, and Rome’s white temples Crumble with Babylon back to ashes. Dániel Berzsenyi Translated by W. Kirkconnell--------------< • ^ • >-------------Dr. Dennis Gabor Receives Nobel Prize Dr. Dennis Gabor, staff scientist for CBS Laboratories, a division of Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., has been awarded the 1971 Nobel Prize for Physics. He thus became the third Hungarian- born scientist to be so honored in the last ten years. With the announcement of the prize in November of last year, he joined Dr. Eugene P. Wigner of Princeton University, Dr. Georg von Békésy of Harvard University and Dr. Albert Szent-Györgyi, who also are Nobel laureates. Dr. Gabor, known internationally as the “father of Holography,” was honored for his invention 23 years ago of the lensless photographic technique of producing three-dimensional objects by lightwave interference patterns onto a glass plate. Holography since has become a tool for use in industry, science and government, and has found practical applications in such areas as color television and medicine. Now professor emeritus of applied electronic physics of the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, Dr. Gabor worked out the mathematical basis for holography when he discovered how to reconstruct objects from their lightwave interference patterns. He used this “interference principle” to construct the first hologram in 1948, which he named after the Greek work “holos” meaning whole. He established his technique, when trying to increase the resolving power of electron microscopes; with the coming of the laser beam in 1961, it was given a wider application, and since the first laser holograms were obtained in the United States the
