Word: wagnerism
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...than six years in a $24.30-a-month flat in Spanish Harlem. In My People, he writes with vivid feeling and detail about what it means to exist in Manhattan's Puerto Rican ghetto, and how the slums are preserved by sloth, corruption and civic indifference-Mayor Robert Wagner, he notes, is a man of "extravagant apathy...
...plays Verdi's Lady Macbeth, chilling in the sleepwalking scene, and Sutherland is Donna Anna, crying vengeance on Don Giovanni at the top of her voice. The other reigning sopranos in this international exposition are Sweden's Birgit Nilsson singing Beethoven, France's Regine Crespin singing Wagner, Germany's Elisabeth Schwarzkopf singing Mozart, and Spain's Victoria de los Angeles singing Verdi and Gounod...
...York's Democratic party badly needs a popular candidate to run against the well-entrenched Keating. Mayor Robert Wagner of New York City had been the obvious choice but he has made absolutely clear his determination not to seek the Senate seat. A plethora of other local politicians have expressed interest in the nomination but none, with the possible exception of Franklin Roosevelt, Jr., has the necessary stature to fight a successful campaign. Some New York City Democrats suggested Adlai Stevenson, but his own reluctance, combined with his crushing loss of New York to Eisenhower in 1956, has made...
...idea appeals greatly to many New York Democratic leaders; they have been desperately looking for a strong candidate to contest Keating, who has a formidable following. But there are dissonant voices as well. Upstate Democratic Congressman Samuel Stratton wants the nomination himself. New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner mumbled his reluctant acquiescence, but he would just as soon not deal with any threats to his party leadership, and the New York Times was plainly against it. While there is nothing illegal about a Kennedy candidacy in New York, said a Times editorial, "there is plenty that is cynical...
...version of Bartok's opera, Bluebeard's Castle, filled the second half of the program. The opera is Bartok's Opus 11, written in 1911 just four years after Kodaly had introduced Bartok to the music of Debussy, and while Bartok was still under the influence of Strauss and Wagner...