Word: wagnerism
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...ELEVENTH HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Psychiatrist Ralph Bellamy assigns Nurse Diahann Carroll to rehabilitate Patient Robert Wagner, who has lost his looks...
STRAUSS: EIN HELDENLEBEN (RCA Victor). Were it not for Wagner, there could have been no Strauss, and were it not for Strauss, there could be no proper use for an orchestra as mightily sonorous as the Boston Symphony Orchestra can become when Conductor Erich Leinsdorf is in a mood to encourage grandeur. Here, Leins-dorf's orchestra is at its heroic best and so, as a result, is Strauss's music...
...Playwright Jean-Paul Sartre almost turned the trick. His play transformed turgid history into skillful theater and tired slogans into existential epigrams. This film, adapted freely from the drama, presents even more impressive credentials. It is directed by Vittorio De Sica. It stars, along with Fredric March and Robert Wagner, two 1961 Oscar winners: Sophia Loren and Maximilian Schell. And it is written by Abby Mann, who also carried off a 1961 Oscar for his script of Judgment at Nuremberg. But there will hardly be any such laurels for Altona. It is a ponderous, pretentious, interminable Germanic muddle...
...scene he simply aims his camera at a famous face and hopes for the best. He seldom gets it. Loren looks stupid in a stupid part. Schell, in a role demanding virility and violence, behaves like a hysterical girl. March, for want of anything better to play, plays March. Wagner at least gives the customers something to snicker at. His sunny California accent sounds gloriously silly in foggy old Hamburg, and when he walks in to take over the family firm, he looks wildly out of place. It's as if Prince Valiant had come barging, bright-eyed...
...Year. So it fell, in the showdown of this year's strike threat, to Mayor Robert Wagner to spur a settlement. He sent in three mediators who essentially suggested money next year, and the union rapidly agreed. The teachers won a raise averaging $580, most of it to come in 1964-65. The city will then be offering a $6,425 starting salary for beginning teachers with a master's degree, and the "super-maximum" will...