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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...
...dollars they had not met a single refusal. In hand: $166 million in private bank loans; $121 million from the International Monetary Fund and various U.S. agencies. In all, Macapagal can begin his reform administration with a sizable backlog of about $400 million. He plans to ease import-export controls, continue some tariffs in a way that will encourage agriculture, discourage luxury imports...
...Equally important to the consumer is the Market's decision to abolish import embargoes. At West Germany's insistence, any nation may still ban key imports such as grain, wine, poultry, pork or vegetables if it fears disruption of its internal market. But after a brief grace period (example: four days for apples), a Common Market commission can revoke the ban if it appears to lack serious justification...