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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 15, 1974 | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

STRATFORD, Conn.--In all literature there exists no more famous, more popular or more influential a love story than Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. And if one extends the field to music, only Wagner's Tristan and Isolde can rival...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Juliet Not Good Enough for Her Romeo | 7/5/1974 | See Source »

...commented a party to the decision. By noon Wednesday enough buy orders had been rounded up to bring off a trade of 120,000 shares-on which the price dropped to 48, down an amazing 27⅛ points, or 36% of the stock's Monday value. Even though Wagner, Stott & Co., specialists in the stock, bought 35,000 shares for its own account, the price of the stock continued to drift down to a Wednesday close of 46½. By week's end it had recovered only to 50⅞. Veteran Wall Streeters blamed a herd instinct among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Institutionalized Panic | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

...school, students lie on the floor listening to Beethoven and Wagner, learn math by playing with dice and cards, and stroll the halls in jeans and T shirts. At another, there are spelling bees, reading drills, a strict dress code-and paddlings. The two schools seem so different they could be on opposite sides of the planet. But both are located in Pasadena, Calif, (pop. 113,000), a Los Angeles suburb, and are part of a school system that offers one of the nation's most diversified educational programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Multiple Choice | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

...book's best chapter, "View of an Unperson," Fest explores the ways in which Hitler's own mesmerizing public spectacles-especially the death-heavy memorials to Nazi martyrs -were grand variations of the Wagner operas he admired so much. Indeed, concludes Fest, Hitler was neurotically fearful about being caught offstage-or off guard: he covered his mouth when he laughed. "He had scarcely any but staged relationships," writes Fest. "Everyone was either an extra or an instrument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stages of Savagery | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

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