Hungarian Review, 1979 (25. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1979-01-01 / 1. szám

CHILDREN AND SOCIETY Twenty years ago the United Nations passed as a resolution its declaration on the rights of children. In 1976, the UN General Assembly declared 1979 the Inter­national Year of the Child, to encourage, through worldwide commemoration of the anniversary, the implementation of the rights that the declaration laid down. The need to do so cannot be demonstrated more clearly than by stating that at present —to consider only food and clothing— 350m of the world’s children are in need. Take into account health care and school­ing, and there are many millions more. The fact that in Hungary we can consid­er the UN declaration’s principles as either having been and in the course of being attained, stems from the road the country took towards steadfast social progress after the Second World War. In the pre­vious decades, the oppressive régime that followed the bloody suppression of the re­volutions of 1918 and 1919’had reversed even the bourgeois-democratic achieve­ments previously wrested from the semi­­feudal, semi-capitalist ruling class, but after 1945 the accomplished aims of the bourgeois-democratic revolution pointed further—to the building of socialism under the leadership of the Communists. The first step towards ensuring that there be no hungry, needy children in Hungary was solving the land question. By taking over the basic means of production, a social and economic system could be established in which—as the UN declaration sets down —programmes in the interests of children form an integral part of economic and development plans. In this issue we exemplify our society’s fundamental principles by quoting from leading Hungarian statesmen (see p.24). Governed by these principles, a develop­ment will be achieved which will bring about high-level satisfaction of the needs of the whole people, including children, by the long-standing proven method for solving long-term and daily practical prob­lems: by the democratic participation of the masses. The equal rights for all, irrespective of class, nationality, religion or race which the UN declaration urged should also be applied to children, are a valid reality throughout the Hungarian society of to­day. Every child has the chance to develop —physically, mentally, morally, intellec­tually and emotionally. Free welfare bene­fits are available to all, as are compulsory, free education in primary school, and free secondary and higher education as well. Family allowances, and childcare allow­ances for mothers at home with their children, the extensive bonus scheme, the housing allocation principles that favour young couples and families with several children, the cheap, state-subsidized cloth­ing for children, the strenuous efforts by the state, villages, towns, workplaces and voluntary social workers to improve the still less-than-adequate day-nursery and nursery-school provisions—all express our sense of responsibility towards children and their future. This sense of responsibility felt by Hun­garian society does not stop at the country’s borders. Its extent is manifested also by Hungary’s active participation in the Inter­national Year of the Child. 2 HUNGARIAN review 1-1979 CONTENTS Children and society 2 Music brings us together 3 Year of the child 4 Heves County Snow-clad mountains 7 Bull's Blood of Eger 11 Where to go-what to see 13 Economic scene 14 The map collection 16 'Wine' by Géza Gárdonyi 18 Palace on the Danube Bend 20 Hungarian literature 13 21 Good news 23 Power, liberty, democracy 24 First exhibition 26 Cultural scene 28 News 8i pictures 30 Subscribe to Hungarian Review at the following addresses: KULTÚRA Budapest, P.O.Box 149. H-1389 CBD LIBRARY AND SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE Box 4886 G.P.O. Sydney, N. S. W. 2001 Australia COLLETS SUBSCRIPTION AGENTS Denington Estate, Wellingborough Northants NN8 2QT, U.K. THE DANUBIA BOOK COMPANY 78 Shaftesbury Avenue London, WIV 7DG, U.K. MARUZEN COMPANY LIMITED 6 Tori-Nichome, Nihonbashi Tokyo 103. Japan (P.O. Box 5050. 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Editor in chief: Gábor Vajda Budapest, Lenin körút 9- H-11,1073 Publishers: Lapkiadó Vállalat Director: Norbert Siklósi Photogravure: Athenaeum, Budapest Director responsible: Béla Soproni Distributed by KULTÚRA, BUDAPEST Articles in the Hungarian Review may be reproduced freely with credit given to this journal "Index'' 26.519 Hungarian Review is published monthly in English, French, Polish, Russian & Spanish Front cover: WOODLAND WINTER (see pp.7-9) Photo by Sándor Nagygyörgy Back cover: A 17TH CENTURY GLOBE (see pp.16-17) Photo by Ottó Vahl Terjeszti a Magyar Posta. Előfizethető bármely postahivatalnál, a kéz­besítőknél, a Posta hírlapüzleteiben és a Posta Központi Hírlap-Irodánál (KHI, Bu­dapest V., József nádor tér 1, H-1 900) Elő­fizetési díj: egy évre 96,- Ft HU ISSN 0018-7763 At the beginning of each meeting Klára Kokas throws the ball to each child and asks their name in songs and the children answer with the same tune. Beginners, or those with a poorer musical ear are trained with simpler tunes and then graduate to more complicated ones When learning a new song, Klára Kokas sings the song first and transmits its rhythm to the children with her body. The personal link makes children more receptive Children act out a Kodály song about an old bear; they mime both the bear and his cave

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