Who's on first [antikvár]

he heard the roar of an oncoming truck. The noise broke the silence of his fourth-floor apartment on Dohany Street. It was the first sound of a motor vehicle he had heard since late in the afternoon of the preceding day, when, finally, the last sniper's shot was fired. The last, he gathered from the shortwave radio, of the resistance in Budapest.During the breath-catching days of libertyone full week, the high emotional point reached with the elated release from prison of Cardinal Mindszenty on Wednesdayrumors had swept Budapest that the Russian Army was grouping for an assault. But optimism had been overwhelroing: Russian tank drivers would refuse to fire on the students . . . The Secretary-General of the United Nations would fly in to abort any attempted Soviet military reoccupation . . . The people of the other satellite states were in open revolt . . . Khrushchev would call back his divisions from Eastern Europe before the week was out.When the Russians did movewith eight divisions at 4 a.m. on Friday, the protests poured in from European capitals. The Security Council was convened at three in the morning, New York time. President Eisenhower publicly deplored the turn of events. But the voice of BBC soon lost that flush of excitement, and the announcers once again sounded^Blackford Oakes recalled George Orwell's phrase"genteel and throaty" as they acknowledged the fall of Budapest and the "desultory resistance" in the coimtryside. The BBC1