Word: cosima
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...September, Laura Zaccaro, Cosima von Bulow and Amy Carter enrolled in college in Providence. If you stuck your ear to the ground, you could hear the rumblings down there...
...divorce. Their mother is shocked at the notion: "Divorce! You are too young to utter the word, and there is no reason why you should, for you know nothing about it. You have never known anybody who was divorced. I don't think I ever have, except of course Cosima Wagner." The scene shifts, in a downwardly mobile fashion, to a Thamesside public house and inn, run by friends of the Aubreys'. Rose stumbles into a Saturday-night ruckus in the bar: "All the customers were standing quite still and nobody was saying anything. Their faces were clay-colored...
...wanderings through the high and low cultures of half a dozen nations, Gay finds far more evidence of bourgeois couples coupling. And procreating. And writing down all kinds of details in journals left for future historians. So he shows us Richard Wagner hurrying in to hush Cosima's moaning during the birth of Siegfried, and Prime Minister Gladstone assisting his wife's lactation by rubbing her nipples "& prayers as usual...
...Festspielhaus is, as usual, in transition. During its early years, it was the physical realization of Wagner's artistic vision: a theater built to his own specifications where his revolutionary music dramas could be given their fullest expression. After Wagner's death in 1883, his widow Cosima carried on the tradition for 25 years, when she was succeeded by their son Siegfried. Bayreuth was re-opened after the war in 1951, and a leaner, more ascetic style developed under Wagner's grandson Wieland. Operating under the twin inspirations of his own adventurous ideas and the straitened German...
NONFICTION: Dorothy Day, William D. Miller ∙ The Killing of Bonnie Garland, Willard Gaylin ∙Poets in Their Youth, Eileen Simpson ∙ Richard and Cosima Wagner: Biography of a Marriage, Geoffrey Skelton ∙Thomas Hardy, Michael Millgate ∙Uncivil Liberties, Calvin Trillin