Word: hager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mozart: Mitridate, Re di Ponto (Sopranos Arleen Augér, Ileana Cotrubas and Edith Gruberova, Mezzo Agnes Baltsa, Tenor Werner Hollweg, Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg, Leopold Hager, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon; 4 LPs); La Clemenza di Tito (Mezzos Janet Baker and Yvonne Minton, Tenor Stuart Burrows, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis, conductor; Philips; 3 LPs). Mozart composed Mitridate when he was only 14; La Clemenza came just before he died at 35. Both works are all but forgotten. They are opera seria, the early style of Italian opera that can present obstacles for the modern...
...work, but if pickets are there, I'll go home," said Claude Profitt, 47. Said Ken Hager: "I drive a long ways every day before daylight. How is the National Guard gonna protect a miner on these West Virginia roads...
John W. Comfort Hager City...
...occasional disagreement between them and local TV newsmen. When NBC Field Producer Robert Toombs checked in at the network affiliate, WBZ-TV, a station employee who had been watching the network's reports yelled, "You're blowing the whole thing out of proportion!" Complained NBC Correspondent Robert Hager: "My God, South Boston is going to hell, and everybody here says things are quiet...
Though South Boston did not quite go to hell, Hager's remark underscored a dilemma for journalists. The agreement to play it cool was well intentioned. That most Boston newsmen cooperated in carrying it out doubtless helped authorities to maintain a degree of order in a potentially calamitous situation. But there is a danger in self-censorship. In its desire to avoid provocative excesses, the Boston press came perilously close to a kind of news management that can distort coverage just as surely as sensationalism. To dictate the tone of reportage even before the event occurs can create...