Word: wagnerism
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...Rizzo's victory, when taken together with Mayor Daley's overwhelming victory in Chicago last month, indicates something about what people are now looking for in a Mayor. In the 1950's, urban voters seemed to be electing administrators like Robert Wagner who were capable of delivering basic services like garbage collection and street cleaning in an efficient way. In the middle '60's, city voters elected dynamic and aggressive liberals like Jerome Cavanaugh in Detroit and John Lindsay in New York. Voters seemed to accept the existence of "the urban crisis" and put their hopes in young liberals...
...Brown midfielder Jeff Wagner found the range at 11:14, and teammate Steve Russo tallied a second Brown goal two minutes later. Bruin Kevin Cleere increased the lead to 3-1 early in the second period and it appeared that Brown was pulling out of reach...
Died. Gertrude Kappel, 86, opera star of the 1920s and '30s; in Munich. A specialist in supersoprano parts by Wagner and Strauss, Kappel was admired both for her beautiful voice and her ability to dig deeply into the psychology of opera's more peculiar characters. She sang Elektra in the Metropolitan's first production of the Strauss opera in 1932, upsetting some critics by her classical vocalism in this frenzied role, sending others into raves even for her vivid dancing. Among her admirers was Richard Strauss himself, who at the time preferred her Elektra to all others...
...Iolanthe is perhaps the main reason why William Gilbert did not receive his knighthood until shortly before he died. The show attacks the House of Lords, the law, the bourgeoisie, and Wagner (all of which deserve attacking). The peers are savagely caricatured, given Wagnerian leitmotivs and placed in absurd situations. The humor of the book is alternately subtle and broad, but, when done well, always amusing...
...Stendahl, dean of the Divinity School; Philip Stewart, assistant professor of French; Jack M. Stein, professor of German; Michael J. Tannenbaum, associate professor of Physics; Karl V. Teeter, professor of Linguistics, Department Chairman; James C. Thomson, Jr., lecturer on History; Thomas Von Foerster, assistant professor of Physics; Edward W. Wagner, professor of Korean Studies; Michael Walzer, professor of Government, Chairman of Social Studies; Donald P. Warwick, lecturer in Social Relations; Philip M. Weinstein, assistant professor of English; James D. White, assistant professor of Chemistry; George H. Williams, Hollis Professor of Divinity; Thomas H. Wilson, professor of Physiology; Ronald G. Witt...