Amerikai Magyar Szó, 1979. január-június (33. évfolyam, 1-26. szám)

1979-04-19 / 16. szám

Thursday, April 19. 1979.

.-'AMERIKAI MAGYAR SZO

OSZE: SCULPTOR OF THE “HUMAN CONDITION”

In practically the same section of Manhattan and amidst substantially the same indigent conditions that a generation ago the titan of XX. century music,

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Bela Bartók created his ultimate masterpieces, another great Hungarian artist, the sculptor András Ősze carries on in the tradition of Bartók: giving artistic expression to the brotherhood of mankind and to the agonies marking the road in that direction.

There is a remarkable parallel between the carreers of these two great Hungarian masters. In their search for the common denominator of human experiences and aspirations both of them traveled widely abroad, immersing themselves in the cultures of what today we define zs third world people,both of them probed deep into their rich historical and cultural heritage. And the art of both of these transcendental visionaries culminate in giving expression to the unfathomable sorrow accompanying mankind's search for a better future.

And ironically Osze, one of the great sculptors of our time shares the same indifference on the part of the respective cultural establishment that Bartók was exposed to and which ultimately caused his untimely demise.

After having completed his art studies in Budapest, Osze worked in the Hungarian Academy in Rome. In 1948 he participated, together with four leading Brazilian artists in the contest for the national monument of Brazil. In the ensueing years he thaught in the leading art institutes of Brazil and Peru, working in the meanwhile, increasingly at his craft. His sculptures are precious treasures in at least 50 museums throughout the world. His works were exhibited, to mention but a few cities, in Budapest, Rome, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, Denver, Bucarest, Buenos Aires, Tel Aviv and Montreal.

Ósze - says the “Who is Who” in the arts about him - is an artist who is attracted by the crucial problems of the world around him. His works retain the pure forms and show the dexterous capabilities of the artist.

More revealing than this official appraisal of his talent is his own statement he made to an interviewer some time ago:

“Brazil opened my eyes to the new beauties and

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secrets of the world, there is where I became fully aware of the monstrous poverty of both whites and blacks as the result of exploitation.”

Just as his illustrious compatriot, Bartók wrung the agonies of mankind out of his heart and put it into the form of music, just as Neruda expressed the

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same emotions in poetry, Osze carves them into wood, wire and metals.

HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION , . , _.

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the Soviet Union. Hitler’s insane plans for the conquest of the world, and the holocaust which was one of its results, might not have occured at all.

The Hungarian Workers’ Republic has been much maligned. Let those critics contemplate the words of one of the greatest heroes of Hungary, the leader of one of its glorious struggles for freedom - Ferenc Rákóczi. “King Ladislaus, one of the noblest heroes of our nation did not hesitate to rise against the legal order, as a matter of fact, against the crowned king of his nation. Yet the Church has canonized him. For centuries there have been among us those who have slandered the defenders of freedom and the rights of the people. It is they, by right, who deserve the scorn and condemnation of mankind.” It is with these thoughts that we hail the memory of the heroes of March 15, 1848, of the 1848-49 War of Liberation, of the first Hungarian Peoples’ Republic of 1919 and the day of liberation of Hungary in April, 1945.

From wasteland alakeoff beauty and recreation

Iii one of Budapest’s western districts a former clay pit has been transformed to a pleasant pond

I Beat Incurable Cancer With My Willpower!

The great Hungarian scientist, Dr. Hans Selye, was shocked to learn he had incurable cancer, and doubly stunned when he heard he had only one year to live.

That was five years ago. Today, at 72, Dr. Selye — the world’s leading expert on stress — is still writing, lecturing all over the world, and riding his bike daily for exercise. And he believes he beat cancer with nothing but willpower.

“I won’t let this disease beat me”, he vowed when he first learned he had the cancer in 1973.

Doctors diagnosed a lump that was removed from his thigh as histiocytic reticulosarcoma. They said it was incurable.

“They told me: ‘It’s an awful bit of news, but you have only one year to live,’ recalled Dr. Selye.

“I didn’t think they could cure it because no case had ever been cured, ” Dr. Selye said. “I said to myself: ‘Well, there are two things you can do. Either you can sit here and pity yourself for one year, and be the man on death row that everybody pities. Or do something useful!”

Dr. Selye president of the International Institute on Stress in Motreal, Canada and an author of 33 books and 1600 scientific articles chose to continue his life of useful work.

He began writing his autobiography, “The Stress of My Life” which became one of his best-known works.

He began experiments “which I knew I would never live to see the end of. I made plans for five years ahead, 10 years ahead, and so on.”

And although he could not erase the tought of death entirely, he pushed it into one corner of his mind. Dr. Selye vowed he would live life to the fullest — no matter how little time he had left.

“I had the will to live during that year, because being alive is not the same as living,” he said. ‘It’s not adding years to life that counts, but adding life to years.”

A year went by, then another. At the end of three years Dr. Selye says, the thought of death was no longer a major concern. He had been waiting for the cancer to come back, but it didn’t.

“No trace of it was left,” he said, adding: “Now I’m officially in a state of cure. I’m much more likely to die of other causes, instead of cancer.”

While Dr. Selye as a scientist will not say flatly that the will to live can beat disease, as an individual he agreees it happened to him.

“In my case this was so,” he said. “I think in cases of cancer the will to live is very important.”

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set in a well-kept park. The reed-fringed pond has become a recreation center for the neighboring residential area. The residents and workers in the local factories took part in the earth work and in planting the park. The sloping bank has been terraced to give sheltered spots for sunbathing in. summer. A playground and courts for ball games have also been built. The district council has now offered a new area of around 12 hectares for transformation into a park. There are plans to lay tennis courts here which can be used as skating rinks in the winter. There will be bycicle tracks and stables for ponies so that city children can make friends with animals too.

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