Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller and ex-Governor Averell Harriman paid homage at the general's hotel suite in what the New York Herald Tribune called a "little summit.'' Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., honored De Gaulle in his own language; Mayor Wagner, not to be outdone, quoted from Victor Hugo; and the New York Times ran the complete text of De Gaulle's speech in French. For dinner, the Waldorf's candlelit Grand Ballroom was crammed with the high-angled names of the city's society. At the "April...
...sing." Having worked hard with Diamant, she gol her big break in 1957 when Walter hired her for one of the solo parts in Mahler's Second Symphony with the Philharmonic Although she sings some contemporary works, she prefers the songs of Hugo Wolf excerpts from Wagner, Mahler. Said she before going onstage last week: "I fee every word, but I have to keep the feel ing under control. I sing Das Lied as if I'm looking on, not as if I'm living...
...Mozart," he cries, "must be allegro. It must smile! Allegro not only with the tempo but with this!"-and he resoundingly slaps his face. At times he speaks like a counseling father: "I don't believe that to be a great man one needs to play only Wagner or Beethoven. Play also Traviata as you are best able to play. I like this music as I like Mozart...
...with a fellow bladesman, Dick Button, 30, who won the men's title in the 1948 and 1952 Winter Olympics. Earlier, in properly cold weather, Carol was honored by some 250,000 admirers, who cheered her way up snow-lined lower Broadway. After she had kissed Mayor Robert Wagner Jr. seven, times (once for him, six more times for photographers), His Honor piped: "Best thing that's happened...
...Jack Benny Show (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Jack's guests: Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood...