Word: wagnerism
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...nonchalant portrayal of himself as a simple schoolboy is belied by the inclusion of an article written by his sister for the French magazine Positif. The article reveals that he had an artistically active childhood, directing a family puppet theater and delivering, in his early teens, bedtime lectures on Wagner accompanied by his violin...
...still has to be approved by the village Board of Trustees, but we're hoping to get it within a year," says George A. Wagner, deputy chief of Northfield Police, who has been in charge of computerizing the force. He cities the same reasons as Harvard officials for buying a computer: "We're currently using a computer in central Illinois for data analysis, and that takes months. We need our own machine for statistical data analysis...
...Wagner calls this decision "wrong". He adds, "If you don't have anything to do with a regime like that, you throw away an opportunity to influence a situation." The Korea Institute, which Wagner heads, and other Harvard research centers have maintained open relations with Korea...
...academic ties to Korea are reinforced by Korea's financial contributions to several programs and institutes. Wagner says that there was a "small grant" to the Korea Institute made by the Korean Research Organization last fall to help publish an English lay journal of Korean studies. Other joint Harvard Korean projects include a ten volume analysis of the modernization of Korea, of which nine have been completed, written in a cooperative effort between the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) and the Korea Development Institute...
...very difficult to say that you're going to cut off all relations with any government that doesn't live up to your standards," says Wagner. "There is a general trend in the lessening of these standards I feel general optimism...