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...staging of Wagner -- and all other opera -- by doing away with conventional sets. Wieland died in 1966, leaving Wolfgang in command of the festival. He too has had a busy career directing, but his work tends to be fussy and literal, and he is not taken seriously. The rumor is that Wolfgang started his memoir when he heard he had a rival, American author Frederic Spotts, whose Bayreuth (Yale University; $35) appeared in late June. Once again Wolfgang has been badly bested...
...love with a scholar on the run from the British who is an aide to the implacable revolutionary Michael Collins. It is a period of shaky nerves in great houses, of informers, of men in overcoats lurking about with revolvers, of Dublin, as ever, "a notorious whispering gallery of rumor, malice, speculation, spiced always and made palatable, such was the claim, by wit and vivacity. Or bad manners passing as such." It is a time that devours its heroes, not always neatly. All this makes the author's concluding study of Irish history a fine, smoldering narrative, even...
While the dorm may be culturally diverse, MassHall residents have developed a reputation forbeing monolithic in one important regard: theirsilence. In fact, rumor has it that the incomingfirst-years placed in Mass Hall are students whoindicate on their rooming applications they arequiet people...
...Desire. Ward hasn't given any hearty indication that he wants to play in the National Football League. He's a projected second-or third-round choice in the NBA , and rumor has it wants to play basketball. Another rumor has him going to the Canadian Football League, whose style of play may better suit...
...loss of Green means the loss of an unusually frank and sincere voice in Mass. Hall. WE worry that his replacement won't match that standard--especially if, as rumor has it, that replacement is the Kennedy School's slick and polished Dean Albert Carnesale, whose handlers accompany him wherever he goes...