Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Past the Point. The effect of Wagner's withdrawal upon the candidacy of Republican Lindsay was open to conjecture. No longer would Lindsay have tired Bob Wagner to use as a whipping boy and his administration as a target. Still, New York City Democrats, who outnumber Republicans by more than 3 to 1, have grown accustomed to Wagner, and most of them undoubtedly would have voted for him again. Richard Nixon, just at a guess, figured that Wagner's decision increased Lindsay's chances...
...Wagner had passed the point of having to worry about such things. He had said he was stepping down, and he meant it. He seemed hardly to care that Bobby Kennedy, with whom his relationship has been cool, would now try to step in as undisputed leader of the party in New York. Wagner's financial future was assured, if only because he is eligible for a sizable pension as a result of his many years as a public servant. While other Democrats fight it out, first against each other and then against Lindsay, Wagner will be able...
...SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH Robert Wagner, LL.D., Mayor of New York...
...opened a new Tristan und Isolde that dispensed almost entirely with theatrical effects, set the most important scenes in near-darkness. Explained Director Rudolf Hartmann: "I wanted this to be a Tristan in which the main interpretation was left to the music." His concern, which would have delighted Richard Wagner, suited the occasion: the 100th anniversary of Tristan's première-also in Munich...
...opera's first production was almost as heavy with intrigue as Wagner's plot. Though the composer grandly pronounced Tristan "the greatest musical drama of all time," opera houses in Dresden, Berlin, Vienna and Munich rejected it as "unperformable." Moreover, to a public reared on Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti and Meyerbeer, most of Wagner's works seemed to be joyless monstrosities...