Word: wagnerism
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Less than two months after the march down Beacon Street, the cause of truth brought Shaw and his men to the beach beneath Fort Wagner, which guarded the harbor entrance to Charleston. Shaw volunteered to lead the attack. Perhaps he was rash. Perhaps his commanders regarded his troops as fodder, expendable. Intelligence reports claimed that Shaw's 600 men outnumbered the defenders 2 to 1. Exactly the reverse was true. Even after a heavy Union bombardment, Confederate soldiers remained strongly entrenched behind their palmetto barriers. As darkness fell on July 18, 1863, Shaw spoke quietly to his troops...
...prepared to start bargaining again, no talks have been scheduled, and the ugly mood that has marked previous strikes seems to be on the rise. Just the word of the breakdown in negotiations last week sparked wildcat strikes by 8,000 miners in the East and Midwest. As Norvel Wagner, a U.M.W. field representative in West Virginia, put it, "It's itchy feet...
Even a genius needs practice to bring his talent into full flower. Beethoven, for example, had to get two fairly conventional symphonies under his belt before he revolutionized the form in the Eroica. Wagner, the creator of the German music-drama, required four false starts before he produced The Flying Dutchman. Giuseppe Verdi, the greatest of Italian opera composers, was no exception. Before Rigoletto, his first masterpiece, there came 16 other works, most of which have languished in obscurity for years...
...asked them how they could turn down a request from a home-town girl," says Delaney. "I had an interview with the president of Case the next afternoon." Correspondent Christopher Redman visited the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra to discuss arts-funding cuts and came upon it rehearsing excerpts from Wagner's Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods). Says Redman: "The music seemed painfully appropriate...
Desaulniers, however, proved a study in momentum as he upended Wagner in the second game and continually raised the level of his play in the succeeding games to hold off his opponent and take the last three frames...