Word: wagnerism
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...sensitive, rich-voiced singing of Soprano Makvala Kasrashvili as Natasha and Baritone Yuri Mazurok as Andrei -lay in the company's willingness to take War and Peace for what it is and never what it is not. It is an epic; but unlike the heroes of Verdi or Wagner, Napoleon and Kutuzov never meet face to face, nor do we ever see Andrei suffer his fatal wound, nor can Natasha save him. But although War and Peace is no lyric drama, Prokofiev is capable of remarkably delicate touches, like the soft rasping of strings that evoke the delirium...
Robert F. Wagner New York City...
...Wagner, a Democrat first, last and always, was mayor of New York from...
...cripple the city-as the sanitation men proved when they walked out in 1968, leaving mountains of refuse on the streets. No matter that striking is illegal: the law is basically unenforceable. First given the right to bargain collectively in the 1950s during the friendly administration of Mayor Robert Wagner, the unions made their biggest gains under Lindsay. On entering office in 1966, he was confronted with a strike of transit workers that brought public transportation to a virtual standstill for twelve days. He mishandled the event with a combination of political naiveté and personal arrogance; the mayor...
...Cambridge Hospital has been affiliated with the Harvard Medical School as a teaching hospital since 1966, and Wagner said yesterday all the hospital's interns have non-paying appointments at the Medical School as Clinical Fellows in Medicine and teach some Harvard students...