Word: wagnerism
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...Faust. HOW BÉJART WILL UNDRESS MARGUERITE, promised one headline; FAUST IS A PEEPING TOM, declared another. It was no surprise that Paris greeted one of the freshest and most imaginative productions that the Opéra has had in years with the most furious scandal since Wagner brought Tannhäuser to town...
...toward men of other faiths. Boston Irish are no longer surprised when Richard Cardinal Cushing kneels in prayer in an Episcopal church. For the first time since he became Archbishop of New York, Francis Cardinal Spellman attended a Protestant funeral last week. The service was for Mrs. Robert F. Wagner, the Presbyterian wife of the city's Catholic mayor; the Cardinal also authorized her burial in a Catholic cemetery. The Episcopal Bishop of Colorado has spoken at a Knights of Columbus Mass in Pueblo, and last month Los Angeles' sternly conservative James Cardinal McIntyre astounded most...
Died. Susan Edwards Wagner, 54, wife of New York's Democratic Mayor Robert F. Wagner, a quiet blonde from the staunchly Republican suburb of Greenwich, Conn., who, as hostess in the past ten years at Manhattan's executive residence, Gracie Mansion, entertained expedient thousands who roamed through the house pinching souvenirs; of lung cancer; in Manhattan...
...music center that thunders with Wagner and bubbles with Bach. It is an art center with a proud history of avant-garde innovation. It is a sports center, boasting 75 lakes and forests within 30 miles of the city, and on a clear day the ski slopes of the Alps loom pale blue just 30 miles to the south, over the twin onion domes of the Frauenkirche...
Robert F. Wagner. Jr. '65 has been named editor of The Harvard Review. Thomas R. Meites '65 is publisher and David M. Cordon '65 associate editor. Other new officers are Richard T. Legates '65, general manager; Kathy Emmett '65, secretary-treasurer; Robert Stern '65, circulation manager; and Daniel Singal '65, special projects editor...