Word: wagnerism
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...before he would reach 4,191, return to 1928 and rendezvous with the roughest competitor in baseball's history, Tyrus Raymond Cobb. Somehow Rose overshot his true generation, and has had to hustle almost a quarter of a century to rejoin a gang of bronze men just like him. "Wagner, Speaker, Musial, Aaron--Ty Cobb." He rattles off the last of the stops he has been hurrying past for years. "Ty Cobb," he says with, wonder. Rose's ten-month-old son is named Tyler only because Carol, his second wife, would not approve Tyrus, though he lobbied passionately...
...that Schubert's Winterreise and Schöne Müllerin represent the Romantics' concentration on the individual and his relationship to nature. Similarly, he asserts that Berlioz's Trojans dramatizes the 19th century's obsession with history, that Verdi's Don Carlo portrays the conflict between liberalism and realpolitik, that Wagner's Meistersinger illustrates the aesthetic movement's beliefs about art and society, and that Strauss's Rosenkavalier represents the dawning modern sense of psychological...
...Braun (the dictator was in fact impotent) had yearned for years for the respectability of a wedding license, and now she was to achieve it. She wore a black taffeta afternoon dress with two gold clasps at the shoulders. A minor party official with the coincidentally appropriate name of Wagner (Hitler's favorite composer) was brought in from his militia post to perform the brief ceremony. As the law prescribed, both bride and groom swore that they were Aryans. Wagner signed the marriage certificate, glanced at his watch, saw that it was just after midnight and changed the date from...
Roses is Taylor's new affirmation, a celestial reverie on romantic love. Most of it is set to Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, a famous orchestral set piece that generations of concertgoers associate with the mythical warrior hero whose undoing came not in battle but in love. No matter. Taylor, though an astutely musical choreographer, has never cared much about the public history of the scores he picks. The Siegfried Idyll is the erotic pulse that the ballet moves to. In the long first section, five couples proclaim their love with both passion and a delicate concern for each other that...
...physician becomes a partner in their care. Advances in the understanding and treatment of chronic pain can significantly improve quality of life. Although pain cannot always be completely eliminated, it can be reduced to the point where people become more functional and get their lives back. Philip J. Wagner, M.D. New York City I lived with chronic pain for more than five years, and I had to insist, insult, plead and finally cry before any physician would listen and recognize I was in agony and needed help. I now take a pain medication that has literally given me my life...