Word: wagnerism
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...Drum), and Syberberg (in Our Hitler), director Wolfgang Petersen avoids discussing the complexities of the political, psychological, and cultural roots of the "German catastrophe" and presents, instead, a soldier's-eye view of the war. These boys do not see the battle as the culmination of Romanticism and Wagner or as the result of contradictions of the petty bourgeois character, but rather as a simple, choice-less exposure to death. They believe in their captain, not in Hitler...
EXPECTING. Lindsay Wagner, 32, TV actress (The Bionic Woman), and Henry Kingi, 37, stunt man on The Dukes of Hazzard: their first child...
...first match, Phills pinned sixth-seeded Ray Wagner of Kent State in 1.48 Wagner weighs in at about 280 lbs, and placed fourth nationally in the weight class last year. But Phills relied on quickness to dominate his opponent from the start...
...latter-day Wagner gallantly reaching for the 20th century's Gesamtkunstwerk (all-embracing work of art). But he fell far short. Given the present-day disinclination of opera houses to produce untried, experimental and expensive new works, as well as a changing musical aesthetic that now looks upon serialism merely as a compositional tool and not an end in itself, it is unlikely that Die Soldaten will spawn any successors. -By Michael Walsh
...cult in the 1940s. This was the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, set up and run by Solomon Guggenheim's mistress, the Baroness Hilla Rebay, who-in her dottily hierophantic devotion to the Great Artist, not to mention her purported Nazi sympathies-was for a time the Winifred Wagner of the New York art world. The Museum of Non-Objective Painting, complete with piped-in organ music, was devoted to the baroness's idea that Kandinsky was the messiah, sent to save all culture, with Paul Klee as his attendant apostle...