Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STORY OF CHRISTMAS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A special with Tennessee Ernie Ford and the Roger Wagner Chorale...
...York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner. Arguments for: leading Democratic figure in a pivotal state, a Catholic. Arguments against: a dilatory personality, an uneven record, no national experience...
...Wagner: Siegfried (London). Georg Solti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic and a near-perfect cast (Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen and Joan Sutherland) in the first complete and uncut version of Wagner's magical vision of Teutonic lore...
...support of New York Mayor Robert F. Wagner for a plan to rename Idlewild Airport brought out the little-known fact that the official name of the U.S.'s major airport of entry is New York International Airport-Anderson Field, in honor of one Major General Alexander Anderson, a gallant soldier in both World Wars who filled the time between as a Queens Borough heating and ventilating contractor with powerful connections to New York politicians...
...throne, productions there had reached such a pitch of grandeur that the world premiere of Tristan und Isolde was largely responsible for Prussia's defeat of the Royal Bavarian Army in 1866; after the opera, there was no money left for the guns. The defeated Ludwig, bewitched by Wagner, staged three more premieres before he succumbed to a paranoid fear of crowds that kept him away from opening nights. "Each time I enter my box," he said, "I feel as if a thousand needles stab me when I see all those binoculars turned at me." The king...