Word: wagnerism
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...Korean-war veterans or their next of kin. Nine state veterans' organizations, among them the powerful Legion, are conducting a high-pressure campaign for bonus legislation, and overseas-capped veterans swarm through the Albany legislative halls urging passage. New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner, who may face Rockefeller in November's gubernatorial race, has backed the handout. Yet Rocky, who needs all the votes he can get in November, came before the legionnaires to oppose...
...deathless Beat the Devil, but a piece of fine hairy humor all the same. Deftly adapted by Ruth Brooks Flippen and Bruce Geller from a novel by Nat Benchley, Ship is tautly run by Director Irving Brecher, and it carries a competent crew of supporting players: Robert Wagner, Dolores Hart, Frankie Avalon, Frank Gorshin. Naturally, the captain is always in charge. One minute he cheerily pours whisky on his Wheaties. The next, when the mink he gives the broad turns out to be hoked-up hamster, he screeches in outrage: "I'll sue the guy I stole it from...
...while striking instrumental entrances proclaimed a self-conscious profundity, there was no groundwork of conventions whose variation might tell just what the profundity was about. The music did not demand the concentration essential to divining the deepest beauty in other romantics, say Bruckner or Wagner; its sound initially excited me because of its claim to deepness, but then left me unmoved because it never sketched out a subtle emotional message. When the announcer said that Morton Feldman's Piano (Three Hands) was "infinite personal experience," he parodied just that pretentiousness of style...
Rocky still had a mighty statistic on his side -the 570,000-vote majority he ran up in beating Averell Harriman for Governor in 1958, a generally Democratic year. And Wagner, like every mayor of New York, is presented hourly opportunities for getting into trouble. This may account for another statistic-no 20th century mayor of New York has gone on to become governor of the state...
Shortly after New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner swore in his new traffic commissioner last week, the newcomer told the mayor: "You'd better hold onto your hat. You're in for a shock. I can guarantee you're gonna see things you never saw go on around here before...