Word: wagnerism
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...stag luncheon in a Brooklyn restaurant last week, Abraham M. Lindenbaum, a member of the New York City Planning Commission, rose up over the coffee cups and asked the 43 guests how much they were prepared to contribute to Mayor Robert Wagner's campaign for reelection. Each guest stood up in turn and announced his pledge. In the end, the mayor's campaign purse was some $25,000 heavier. Not one of the guests-all builders and real estate men, many of whom do business with the city-failed to pledge at least $100, and some offered...
...Wagner's two opponents in the mayorality race reacted furiously. In telegrams to the city's Board of Ethics, Republican Louis J. Lefkowitz suggested that the pledges might have violated the city charter, which forbids city employees from accepting gifts "from any person, firm or corporation which, to his knowledge, is interested directly or indirectly in any manner whatsoever in business dealings with the city." City Controller Lawrence E. Gerosa, running as an independent, was less delicate. "The mayor has set one of the worst examples in municipal history," he said. "He should resign...
...output kills appetite, Barzun writes. "Symphonies in bars and cabs, classical drama on television any day of the week, highbrow paperbacks in mountainous profusion (easier to buy than to read), 'art seminars in the home,' capsule operas, 'Chopin by Starlight.' 'The Sound of Wagner,' 'The Best of World Literature'; this cornucopia thrust at the inexperienced and pouring out its contents over us all deadens attention and keeps taste stillborn, like any form of gross feeding. Too much art in too many places means art robbed of its right associations, its exact forms...
There are other signs that Natalie has arrived. Her first marriage, to Actor Robert ("R. J.") Wagner, is on the rocks. She is running with The Clan, undergoing psychoanalysis, and reading Freud. And she is enmeshed in one of the most complicated problems in romantic geometry in Hollywood's long history. In the current quadrangle (the old eternal triangle is from squaresville), Natalie's most attentive admirer is Warren Beatty, her leading man in Splendor, who was long the fiance of Britain's Joan Collins. Joan, in turn, is the current inamorata of Wagner, who is also...
...camera, Natalie became a well publicized Hollywood playgirl. She had a large fling with Nicky Hilton, after Liz Taylor divorced him. She danced and dallied with Jimmy Dean, was often observed on the jump seat of Elvis Presley's motorcycle, and married Wagner in a ceremony that was decorous enough to make some pressagents think it was for real...