Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easy to see why," Greg said. "The singers sing harder and the orchestra plays harder. Co-ordinating this production is almost impossible. It's not as hard as Verdi or Wagner, but the music never quite fits with the singing. Still, Mozart is real opera. And I want to be an opera singer when I grow...
...proposed a method for Kennedy to take over. In 1966 the Democrats will need a gubernatorial candidate, and English has one--Nassau's able, attractive County Executive Eugene Nickerson. If Nickerson became Kennedy's man and won both nomination and election, Kennedy would demonstrate that he, and not Mayor Wagner, controlled political power. At the same time his man, Nickerson, would gain the vital patronage a governor possesses...
...course, this theory depends on many hypotheses: that Nickerson could possibly be elected; that Kennedy's and Wagner's political aims will not coincide; that Kennedy genuinely wants the Presidency; that he will be able to perform the political miracle of dominating a state convention without the patronage of New York's City Hall and the White House...
...chances for a Kennedy takeover, however plausible they may seem now, are not probable. Wagner enjoys extremely amicable relations with President Johnson, and they, not a junior Senator, control the jobs upon which organization thrive. Furthermore, while Nickerson is a Democratic hope, he will encounter strong opposition from better-known gubernatorial possibilities including Wagner himself and upstate Congressman Samuel Stratton...
...more pairs of lovers, Berlioz' Romeo and Juliet and Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, coo near the Arc de Triomphe. With all its harmonic colors and winged grace, Chagall's soaring canopy is a lofty challenge to music...