Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1980 (8. évfolyam, 23-26. szám)
1980 / 25. szám
of Hungarian studies outside of Hungary, with regional interests in (a) East Central Europe; (b) the Soviet Union and related peoples; and (c) Western Europe and the Americas. (2) The Hungarian poem, with special interest in (1) its linguistic and metric bases; (b) its origin, (c) the role of folklore in its system; (d) the history and typology of Hungarian metrics; (e) the role of the poem in the Hungarian literature; (f) criteria of poetry in 20th century Hungarian poem; and (g) translation of the Hungarian poem. Papers are being invited to introduce the above ten topics, and they should be about 30 minutes long. The length of other papers will be 20 minutes. A total of 64 papers will be presented. The language of the congress will be Hungarian. For details, accommodation, and related information write to Beládi Miklós, Nemzetközi Magyar Filológiai Tarsasag, Budapest Országház-u. 30. Hungary 1014. LJ WHITE STAG Ideas are not exchanged through the printed word alone. Borrowing cultural traits has been an ongoing process through many channels such as trade, tourism, contact between members of voluntary agencies, technical cooperation and so forth. One of the most radical influences on the Hungarian social status quo came not from textbooks or populist writings, but through the Boy Scout movement during the interwar period. First it had a decisive impact on the world view of Hungarian youth; then later, as they grew older, on the national political issues as well. By the late 1930s, fifleen leaders of the Boy Scout movement were elected to the House of Representatives, and had World War II not interfered, contemporary Hungary would have a leadership strongly influenced by the ideas of Lord Baden Powell. The flow of ideas is usually not a one-way process. Borrowed ideas are elaborated on, adapted and often borrowed back by their originators. Thus, based on the fundamental tenets of scouting, Hungarian boy scouts developed a highly refined training program for responsible citizenship for older age-group scouts, and when scout leaders emigrated to the United States after World War II, they brought these well tested ideas with them. One of these, Bela Banathy, (then on the faculty of the Defense Language Institute at Monterey, California, now assist, director of the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development in San Francisco) both as an educator and as a parent became dissatisfied with the leadership training methodology and techniques of American Scouting, which he perceived as shallow and incomplete. Eventually, Banathy developed a working model of leadership development for boy leaders in Scouting. In 1957, he personally conducted the first one-week intensive leadership training program at Camp Pico Blanco, in the Ventana Wilderness area of the Los Padres National Forest in California. This initial effort was repeated annually for the next 20 years, affecting the lives of thousands of boy and adult leaders, and became known as the White Stag junior leadership development program. The National Council of the Boy Scouts of America has A Correction An error slipped into our report on the recent work of Ivan Sanders (p. 8 of no. 23/24). The complete title of the Hungarian book Darabbér is A Workers’ State: Piece-Rates in Hungary (see HSN no. 19/20, p. 3) and it was written by Miklós Haraszti not by George Konrad. modeled its own adult and youth leadership development courses from it. Thus, today the White Stag program is accepted as a successful contribution of Hungarian scouting to American leadership training. The name White Stag comes from the well known Hungarian legend referred to by Lord Baden Powell at the World Jamboree in Hungary in 1933. It uses the concept of challenge, or hurdle, as its basic training technique; leadership skills are acquired by exposure to guided opportunities for learning, the solution to which calls for the application of one of several of the leadership competencies. We received the above information from the editor of White Stag News, Joseph StClair, a Boy Scout since 1932, and himself a leader in the White Stag program. For more information write to him at 552-209 Bean Creek Road, Scotts Valley, CA 95066. □ ENGLISH LANGUAGE JOURNALS on HUNGARY The Canadian-American REVIEW of Hungarian Studies VOL. VI, NO. 2 (Fall 1979). CONTENT: Ozsvath, Zsuzsanna. László Nemeth’s Revulsion: Violence and Freedom. Va'rdy, Agnes H. Literature and Politics in Germany of the 1830s: Karl Beck’s Role in the Junges Deutschland Movement. Va'rdy, S.B. Castle Building and Its Social Significance in Medieval Hungary. Deme, László. The Hungarian Revolution of 1848. Szendrey, Thomas. Recent Writings on Hungarian Historiography by S.B. Vardy. Books received: Csaba Varga and András Sajó' (eds) Modern polgári jogelméleti tanumányok (Studies in Modern Bourgeois Legal Theory) by Barnabas Racz; Ferenc Fay. . Kövület (Petrification) by Maxim Tabory;44 Hungarian Short Stories by Paul Várnái; László' Sirchich. A Felvidék az ezeréves magyar államtestben: Magyarok Csehszlovákiában (Upper Hungary in the Thousand-Year-Old Hungarian Body Politic: Hungarians in Czechoslovakia) by Edward Chaszar. NOTE: The circulation office of the Review has a new address: Department of Journalism, U. of Toronto Press, 5201 Dufferin Street, Downsview, ONT, Canada M3H 5T8. DISSERTATIONS* Gates, Rebecca Ann (U. of Illinois, 1979) “The Esterházy Princes, 1760-1790: A Study In Hungarian Aristocratic Life During the Theresian and Josephinian Reform Period.” 302 pages. Microfilm and xerox no. 8009038. The Esterházy princes of the late eighteenth century were grands seigneurs, presiding over lavish households and dispensing patronage to relatives, employees (such as Joseph Haydn), friends, and government officials on an equally grand scale. As the wealthiest magnates of Hungary, they were proprietors of vast estates on which lived a variety (Continued on Page 8) ‘Abstracts are usually based on those published in Dissertation Abstracts International. Microfilm and xerox copies of the original full dissertation may be obtained, when indicated, from Xerox University Microfilm 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Ml 48106. When ordering, use the number shown. NO. 25, AUTUMN, 1980, HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER 7
