Word: wagnerians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York gave Bob Wagner 1,239,533 votes for a plurality of 402,980 over his Republican opponent, Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz. Running as an independent, City Controller Lawrence Gerosa collected a protest vote of 321,996-drawn mostly from Democrats who shuddered at the thought of four more Wagnerian years...
...Last week her theory worked just fine: the voice had a raw, fitfully feverish cast, but it never became ugly or strident. Tenor Thomas was less compelling, but he too turned in a good performance-far more vigorous than Bayreuth audiences can expect from more familiar, beef trust-styled Wagnerian tenors. At the curtain, Wieland Wagner paid his two stars a compliment that suggests just how important American talent has become at Bayreuth. "Thank you," said Wagner, "for a new Parsifal...
...combo, he settled down to serious composition. His most ambitious work to date: an opera about the Ma Barker mob, which appeals to him because "you need subhuman or superhuman characters in opera" and because he hopes that the role of 220-lb. Ma will "resuscitate the race of Wagnerian sopranos...
...scandal seemed a standard scene from the Wagnerian opera: building inspectors on the take because the Board of Education pays them too little, winks at their peccadilloes, and demoralizes them with the behavior of those higher up. But it struck the public hard; playing with the safety of schoolchildren was more than ordinarily corrupt. Said Theobald, a civil engineer whose academic-political experience as a former president of Queens College and a former deputy mayor should have prepared him for Big Town surprises: "It is quite a jolting experience...
...internally of his mind, externally of nature-hoping to surround and throttle the invisible demon that was both the subject and the object of his writing. His individual images are arresting, but what he did well, he overdid. There are page-long cascades of imagery, torrents of metaphors. The Wagnerian school of U.S. writing-Faulkner, Wolfe, Lowry-has apparently never heard of the pause that refreshes...