November 3, 2006

Love of Language Carries a Professor Home

By ELLEN FICKLEN

When students took to the streets of Budapest in October 1956 to demand the withdrawal of Soviet troops, 22-year-old Andras Sandor was working there as a freelance journalist. A recent graduate of the University of Szeged, in southeastern Hungary, where he had studied Hungarian language and literature, he was already deeply involved in the country's reform movement.

"When the demonstrations started, I joined in as a matter of course," he says. He soon followed the lead of writer