Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard Wagner who called Beethoven "a world walking among men." The world was, of course, his music, and there is no more striking example of a world so self-contained or so apparently independent of the man who created it. All of the conscious or subconscious control that Beethoven was capable of seems to have gone into the music-leaving none for the day-by-day business of living. The human Beethoven could not add, could not learn the rules of grammar, and could not master his emotions. For a time, his biographers were able to ignore these facts...
...four victories were shared by one man-New York's Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner. Wagner came out publicly for Farbstein, the only Tammany type the mayor chose to support. The mayor endorsed both Bingham and Scheuer, has long fought to keep Tammany Tiger De Sapio from power. His decision to back Bingham despite the Administration's endorsement of Buckley probably won Wagner no presidential good will. But the outcome certainly increased his stature in and influence over the New York Democratic Party...
...delinquents are bred is indeed bitterness and frustration, which all Negroes feel at the continued denial of equal opportunity everywhere and at the unpunished beatings and killings of Negroes, which continue to feature the civil rights theme in the Deep South." At midweek, New York's Mayor Robert Wagner said grimly, "I am determined that we're going to have law and order in our subways." He announced that 200 Transit Authority policemen would go on daily overtime duty in subways, another 500 regular New York cops would do the same on the streets above...
Just hours after Wagner's beefed-up subway force went on duty, a Negro pulled a knife and slashed it across the face of Cab Driver Henry Feist, 64, as he rode a Brooklyn train. The man was arrested and held on assault charges. But Nick Philippides, his face still swollen and battered, now spoke for a whole city when he said: "Of course I'll have to take the subway. I have no car, and I have to work for a living. But I'll be afraid...
...than six years in a $24.30-a-month flat in Spanish Harlem. In My People, he writes with vivid feeling and detail about what it means to exist in Manhattan's Puerto Rican ghetto, and how the slums are preserved by sloth, corruption and civic indifference-Mayor Robert Wagner, he notes, is a man of "extravagant apathy...