Word: import
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Meistersinger is no different in import from Wagner's more cosmic dramas, and the evening spent with the Boston Opera Group's production conveyed just that. The drama's specific setting (a curious one for Wagner) in bourgeois Nuremberg of the 16th century stresses the tie he envisioned between workmanship (or the Volk), and art's unmeasurable dreams...
...always obvious when a Wagnerian production succeeds, for a music drama is essentially a siege. Its purpose is presumptuous and its battle long because it seeks to overcome our delight in sonority for its own sake, and thereby to thrust upon us the import of precisely what it wants to say. This import strikes us at the moment that we become so imbued with Wagner's musical world that each single utterance--motif, cadence or action--conveys the full magnitude of the drama. In the end singers and orchestra should lose their novelty for us and become vehicles...
...most cases," according to Steinberg, "import competition is only a small part of the totality of the problem facing the American company." Much of the trouble lies within the American economy. Steinberg cited the labor retraining bill signed yesterday by the President as one appropriate measure to cope with the difficulties industry faces...
...Administration's great good luck is that Congress now has no articulate and commanding protectionist zealot. But there will be abundant opposition from Congressmen whose home folks stand to feel an import pinch, and from armies of lobbyists from such industries as textiles, chemicals, glass and electronics...
...than 2? on the dollar, which is one reason why textile stocks are selling below their book values and why textile wages are 20% below the U.S. manufacturing average of $2.10 an hour. With foreign textile wages lower yet, U.S. textilemen complain that they are now being overwhelmed by imports and want to suppress them. But, since imports have only 5% of the U.S. market, a few industry leaders are coming to realize that the anti-import argument does not wash too well...