Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each winter thousands of sophisticated Manhattanites throng the Metropolitan Opera House to goggle at old-fashioned Norse gods and blimp-like maidens disporting themselves in animal skins and burlap. The music-dramas of Richard Wagner, with their wilful, slow-witted heroes (Siegfried, Parsifal, Lohengrin), and their clever, conniving villains (Beck-messer, Mime, Alberich), are far & away Manhattan's favorite operas...
What U. S. Wagner fans like about Wagner is the surging music and the epic drama; but they lose themselves only temporarily in the make-believe of the Wagnerian fairyland. But in Adolf Hitler's Aryan Germany, that fairyland goosesteps up and down the streets in brown shirts. If Wagner, in his operas, sets will and strength above mere brains, thereby echoing the philosophy of his contemporary, Friedrich Nietzsche, his present-day German disciples have gone him one better. What to him was a theme for art and philosophy is to them a principle of practical politics. Realmleader Hitler...
Accusing the University officials of conspiring to organize a company union in violation of the Massachusetts State "Baby Wagner Act," Robert H. Everitt, New England representative of the A. F. of L.s Building Service Employees' International Union, yesterday told Local 30 that "we'll have to be harder on the University if we want to get anywhere," and threatened to ask the State Labor Relations Board to investigate Harvard's "inside" union...