Word: wagnerians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Director J. Edgar Hoover, Johnson took a conciliatory tack, said that he hoped "that this would not degenerate into a battle of personalities." He smiled widely as he spoke on the healthy state of the economy, while aides bustled on and off the porch bearing charts like Wagnerian spear carriers. The President predicted a record retail business for the Christmas holidays, declared that "I hope and expect" steel prices will remain stable next year...
...Rubens, Hals and Rembrandt. An exhaustive retrospective that opens this week at Manhattan's Gallery of Modern Art (see opposite page] and a graphics show at the Allan Frumkin Gallery reveal how - having apparently concluded that Germans make bad French impressionists - Corinth went on to smash the Wagnerian mold...
Married. Lauritz Melchior, 74, famed Wagnerian tenor now in retirement; and Mary Markham, 40, his onetime secretary, now a top Hollywood booking agent; he for the third time, she for the second; at Melchior's estate near Santa Monica, Calif...
...presentation of Parsifal could hardly have been better-even if they did seem a little bit old and fat for college students. There in the role of Parsifal was Charles Kullman, a veteran tenor from the Met; as Kundry, there was Margaret Harshaw, who has been a leading Wagnerian soprano since the '40s. Both are now "artist-performer-teachers" at Indiana, and Indiana is far and away the nation's most ambitious music school...
Fewer Stogies. In West Germany, where the round of ceremonies honoring Adenauer promises to reach Wagnerian proportions, his successor-designate, Vice Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, stayed discreetly out of the limelight...