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Wagnerian Supermen. For a "searching fee" that averages about $50, buxom Frau Paech and other professional Cupid chasers will methodically remake the whimsical old game according to cold Teutonic logic. Clients are interviewed for the necessary information-background, interests, social status, financial situation -and brought together through carefully matched briefing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: They Are the Product of a Broker's Home | 3/8/1963 | See Source »

Mr. George Riddle--is it by direct interposition of Divine Providence, or, more likely, of Pallas Athene?--the distinguished actor who first made his reputation as Oedipus Rex, which he played in the Greek of Sophocles at Sanders Theatre in 1881, a nationally notable event, and now retired from the...

Author: By Lucion Price, | Title: From 'Agamemnon' To 'Faust' | 3/2/1963 | See Source »

To Be a Prophet. Maazel was soon in aly, plotting his comeback. "I took a long, cool look at conducting," he says Of course I liked the power and prestige being a conductor- but did I really have anything to say?" After deciding that he did, he began to build...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: What Ever Happened to Little Lorin? | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

Der Spiegel was created in 1947 as a publication loosely patterned after TIME, but it soon changed into a Teutonic version of Confidential magazine. Editorially, it stood against almost everything and for almost nothing-except, perhaps, recognition of East Germany, which it has frequently proposed. Never particularly friendly to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Two Stubborn Men | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

Caustic Caricature. Meistersinger was wholly different, from the very first notes of the theme of the mastersingers-the guild of vocalists in 16th century Nürnberg that the opera celebrates. Because Meistersinger, Wagner's only attempt at comedy, deals entirely with real people and with none of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Boost for Wagner | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

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