Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...water-crisis team" headed by Interior Secretary Stewart Udall to the five most parched cities-New York, Philadelphia, Newark, Jersey City, Camden, N.J.-with orders to "make hard and fast decisions on the spot to assist each affected community." During his tour, Udall warned New York Mayor Robert Wagner that his city was "on the edge of disaster." New York, is one of the nation's few major cities that does not meter water consumption in residences. It has also failed to tap its biggest potential source, the Hudson River. Johnson reminisced privately that "from earliest memory...
...mainland to talk statecraft. It's even getting so that members of the local Scillonian Club are feeling nervous about calling him "Harold" anymore. Returning from a twelve-day honeymoon on Marco Island, off Florida's west coast, and Nassau, New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner, 55, made a politic assessment of the stewardship of his bride, Barbara Cavanagh Wagner, in the kitchen cabinet. "The fish wasn't bad," said the mayor, "but the roast needed a little more practice. And a little more flavor. I think she needs fur ther instruction." "Noel Coward once...
...city's history. No one could quite believe it. "I hoped for 20,000, maybe 30,000," beamed Moseley, "but this is fantastic!" The musicians, besieged by teen-agers for their autographs, gasped "Who me?" then gleefully scribbled "Ringo Starr." The program included the Act I Prelude to Wagner's Die Meistersinger, and was capped by Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, with the 150-voice Manhattan Chorus. Said Soprano Ella Lee, awed by the thunderous reception: "It's as if Beethoven wrote the Ninth Symphony just a few weeks ago." Funds for the concerts were contrib uted...
Bayreuth's soul searchers today are 60% non-German, of whom a large proportion are wealthy Jews and Frenchmen, the two groups Wagner professedly cared for least, but who now happily pay a top price of $20 per night. But even they still have to sit on the hard, wicker-backed chairs installed by Richard Wagner. Says Wieland: "Grandfather didn't intend his audience to have fun. The uncomfortable seats stimulate the audience to concentrate, listen and experience greatness...
Married. Robert Ferdinand Wagner, 55, New York City's third-term mayor; and Barbara Joan Cavanagh, 36, United Shoe Machinery Corp. heiress and longtime friend of the mayor's late wife Susan; he for the second time; by Francis Cardinal Spellman, in Manhattan. Following a ten-day honeymoon on Marco Island, Fla., the Wagners will live in a duplex suite at Manhattan's Hotel Carlyle while apartment hunting, relegating the mayor's residence, Gracie Mansion, to official use only, since they would have to move out when his term ends in December and, as Mrs. Wagner...