Word: wagnerism
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Boston University is paying the City of Boston to provide 20 policemen to watch the picketers, Stephen Wagner, a B.U. spokesman, said yesterday...
...Wagner said the university did not ask the police to make the arrests and that the arrested picketers would not be punished by the university...
...city needed loans because of a practice, begun by Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. in May 1965 of borrowing short-term notes, payable within one year, to fill budget deficits. As if that was not bad enough, Wagner's collateral for the loans was Bond Anticipation Notes (statements of what the mayor expected to collect in taxes) based on the mayor's own estimate of the next year's revenues, rather than on last year's revenues. The effect of this practice, continued under subsequent administrations, allowed mayors to anticipate much more revenue than they knew the city would receive...
...Anti-Wagner finally arrived at the Metropolitan Opera with French Director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's production of The Flying Dutchman, the tale of a legendary captain condemned to sail forever unless he is able to find a woman faithful until death. Every seven years he in a can come ashore to search for her, and in Norweigian fishing village he finds Senta, a girl obessed by fantasy who believes that she is his redemptress. It is a straightforward story, but Ponnelle has turned it all into the lurid dream of a young steersman. This allows him to dress Senta...
...Levine and the splendid ensemble of Soprano Carol Neblett Tenor William Lewis, Bass-Baritone José van Dam and Bass Paul Plishka. The applause for Ponnelle was mixed with full-throated booing sounds, heard often enough on the Continent but rarely at the Met. New York audiences like their Wagner to be conventional...