Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WAGNER: KUNDRY-PARSIFAL DUET (RCA Victor). Among all her recordings, this 25-year-old reissue was Kirsten Flagstad's favorite. Lauritz Melchior is her Parsifal, awakened to his holy search by her kiss and, one would think, by her voice...
Under oath, the mayor of New York City made an extraordinary charge. His political opponents within his own Dem ocratic Party, said Robert Wagner, had tried to buy off some of his supporters...
...accusation grew out of the paralysis that has gripped the state legislature in Albany for three weeks while the Democrats, divided between pro-and anti-Wagnerians, have been unable to fill the leadership posts. Wagner charged that Democratic State Chairman Wil liam McKeon, originally appointed with his blessing, had offered an "inducement"-including a "double lulu"-to two Wagner men if they would switch their votes away from the mayor's candidates...
Asked what she plans to do now, Elsie replied: "Now we will be able to do all the things we never had time for, I will read, listen to Beethoven and Wagner, and live with the memories of my boys in Harvard Square...
...knack of running things after 30 years in the minority. With the new session nearly a week old, they had not even been able to elect their own leadership, the result of a simmering fight for control of state Democratic machinery between New York's Mayor Robert Wagner and Freshman U.S. Senator Bobby Kennedy. For his part, Rockefeller just sat back and smiled, delivered a message to the legislature that called for in creased spending, including a $1.7 billion war on water pollution...