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Wagner has not fared well at the Metropolitan Opera during the 21-year regime of Rudolf Bing. No fault of Bing's: except for the shining example of Soprano Birgit Nilsson, most singers during that period barely coped with Wagner's long, heroic, leading roles. On the whole, it was left to stage directors and designers to make up in looks what was missing in sound, usually with limited success...
Died. Colonel Rudolf Abel, 68, head of a Soviet spy network in the U.S. between 1948 and 1957; of lung cancer; in Moscow. Though he was later to deny that espionage consists of "riproaring adventures [or] a string of tricks," Abel had his share of both. He was an accomplished linguist and a radio technician who posed as a photographer and amateur artist while leading his double life in Brooklyn. There he rented a $35-a-month studio near the federal courthouse. Like fictional spies, Abel used a variety of arcane items: hollow bolts and coins to carry messages, phony...
...Gentele, who will succeed Rudolf Bing next year as general manager of the Met, recently took Beverly to lunch to discuss the possibility of her singing with the Met in the seasons ahead. It must be a tempting offer for someone who may not have all that many years of singing left. But, says Beverly, "I'll be delighted to be a guest at the Metropolitan, but just that, just a guest...
True Art. A few years later, Mondrian became an enthusiastic convert to Theosophy; he was very much struck by Philosopher Rudolf Steiner's belief that ''occult influences . . . can be awakened by devotional religious feelings, true art, music." But what was "true" art? Mondrian was sure that art got truer to the extent that it provoked meditation and devotion. "In aesthetic contemplation," he wrote, "the individual is pushed to the background, and the universal appears. The deepest purpose of painting has always been to give concrete existence, through color and line, to this universal which appears in contemplation...
...wiretaps and electronic eavesdropping in espionage cases. He also banned what intelligence called "surreptitious entry"-meaning burglary -and a companion tactic, the "bag job," in which agents enter a home or office and examine or copy documents, personal papers or notebooks. In the past, numerous spies-notably Rudolf Abel-have been exposed by bag jobs...