Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time for men with innocent eyes to go outside and look at Boston's renewal program and tell what they see. The program risks being "hooted downs" at hearings and in the press. (For example, Robert F. Wagner, Jr,'s, The New Bostonians and their Poverty, in the May 14 CRIMSON). A good way to get informed is to come up into Government Center by subway. I've never seen a new sub-way station, before. This one is, and that is a fresh experience in itself...
...WAGNER: PARSIFAL (Philips; 5 LPs). This first stereo version has top credentials: conducted by Hans Knappertsbusch, an eminent Wagnerian, it was recorded at Bayreuth, where Wagner intended his "sacred dramatic festival" to be performed and where the acoustics are ideal-even, unfortunately, for coughs. Knappertsbusch slowly and hypnotically weaves the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and Chorus into a rich tapestry of sound against which budding Heldentenor Jess Thomas as Parsifal, Baritone George London as King Amfortas and Soprano Irene Dalis as the tortured Kundry eloquently play out the medieval legend of renunciation and redemption...
...cannot stand by while the decline and fall of New York continues headlong," said Manhattan's Republican Representative John V. Lindsay, and, so saying, announced his candidacy for mayor against Democrat Robert Wagner...
...Cliché. Democrat Bob Wagner's regime may be tired, but it is not about to roll over and play dead. At 55, running for his fourth four-year term, the mayor looks older, wearier and pouchier than ever-but he is recognized as a real master in the art of political survival. On the day that Lindsay announced his candidacy, Wagner found himself in the position of announcing a record city budget of $3.87 billion, involving $255 million of what Wagner lamely described as "borrow now, repay later" financing. That was embarrassing, but Wagner has come back strong...
Students interested in the voter registration drive to be conducted at Miles College in Birmingham, Ala, this summer should contact Diane H. Wagner '67 at Whitman Hall as soon as possible. The drive, lasting, from June 21 to August 13, is seeking 25 volunteers from Boston area colleges...