Word: wagnerian
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...Nazi racial dogma (Rasselehre). In Natur & Kultur, one Otto Muck recognized what democratic scientists had long pointed out, that "racial theory and evolutionary theory are incompatible and bluntly contradictory." So the Nazis "plugged" a different theory-a theory of creation, according to which man developed suddenly during some splendid Wagnerian cataclysm which thrust lower organisms into a new environment where only those creatures survived who modified themselves through sheer force of will power...
...Author. Chief difficulty in writing about Christian goodness is that almost nobody believes it is possible. Next difficulty is that few people find it exciting. In Les Misérables Victor Hugo succeeded in making goodness exciting by free flourishes of his supercolossal, Wagnerian style. His Bishop Myriel is Christian virtue carried to the point of elephantiasis. Author Cronin succeeds by exactly the opposite means-by simplicity, artful artlessness, complete sincerity...
Hitler in Action. The Czech crisis took Shirer and his microphone to "Wagnerian" Godesberg, where the Swastika and the Union Jack flew side by side-"very appropriate, I find...
...Wagnerian operas like Tristan und Isolde and Die Walküre got the most performances (27) because they featured Soprano Kirsten Flagstad and Tenor Lauritz Melchior, who sang respectively 20 and 23 times...
Complaining that except for $2,000 doled out to him since his marriage last summer he has been limited to just $100 a month in living expenses since 1930, blind. British-born Radio Pianist Alec Templeton (Bach Goes to Town, The Shortest Wagnerian Opera} sued his parents for an accounting of his $200,000 earnings, and to restrain them from using any power of attorney he may have signed "without knowing what the paper...