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Mack was the city's last witness in the hearings that began Wednesday, and Speiler plans to call Dr. Gregory R. Wagner '69, secretary-treasurer of the House Officers Association as her first witness tomorrow...
...Dupin the relaxed thinker puffing on his meerschaum, scoffing at the scurrying police as they collect their clues. Worried because "the nineteenth-century pre-eminence of history in the sphere of intellect no longer obtains," intellectual and musical historian Jacques Barzun (University Professor at Columbia, author of Darwin, Marx. Wagner) has undertaken to incite resistance to modern modes of history. In Clio and the Doctors: Psycho History Quanto-History, and History (University of Chicago Press) he cites the depths of the problem he and some other older historians see: The historical sense in modern populations is feeble or nonexistent...
Says John Wagner, a farmer from Sandwich, Ill.: "I didn't think it would take very long to get all the kinds there are." Now, seven years later, Wagner has acquired 500 pieces, and is still collecting...
...Tote Stadt was finally revived by the New York City Opera, with Jeritza, now a remarkably robust and handsome 87, sitting in the fourth row center. Even in the 1920s, Die Tote Stadt was an anachronism. Korngold was to Richard Strauss what Engelbert Humperdinck (Hansel und Gretel) was to Wagner-a brilliant but minor follower. The style of Die Tote Stadt is a lush, clamorous, occasionally schmaltzy orchestral sonorama that lies somewhere between Der Rosenkavalier and Elektra, with special added effects from Puccini, Debussy, Mahler and Rimsky-Korsakov. The best of its vocal moments, like the taunting Marietta...
Welfare Systems. How did New York City get into such a mess? The trouble started at least two decades ago under Mayor Robert Wagner. In the name of good labor relations and even better politics, Wagner encouraged the growth of the city's civil service unions. His successor, John Lindsay, tried at first to tame the unions, but they only grew stronger. Lindsay also favored the unwise practice of borrowing to meet the city's operating expenses, not just its capital construction projects. Moreover, New York offers a number of services unavailable in many other cities: free four...