Word: wagnerism
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Christendom has produced four great Easter poems: The Divine Comedy, which is Catholic; Bach's Matthew Passion Music, which is Protestant; Goethe's Faust, which is humanist; and Wagner's Parsifal, which is Buddhist with a Christian facade...
...time to come. Both are done in Germany. Yale gave a magnificent performance of Part One in 1949, the bicentenary of Goethe's birth. They made one bad mistake; used a phonograph recording of Holst's The Planets, when they had to hand the rich fare of Faust music, Wagner's Overture, Liszt's Symphony, Berlioz's dramatic oratorio, and Boito's opera Meflstofele...
...York's Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner read a news item that plainly indicated the people's choice: a city-wide sampling of registered Democratic voters showed that 88% would not support him should he run for re-election next November. Far from loosing thunderbolts of denunciation when newsmen asked for comment, Wagner dropped a yard-wide hint that he is ready to run for the exit if tapped for a job by the Kennedy Administration. "Being mayor." said Wagner, "is quite a drain on your health...
...characteristically, Steve Kennedy demanded some basic agreements with the mayor before he would accept reappointment. He insisted on continuing his ban against moonlighting on the force, on the ground that cops cannot afford the divided loyalties involved in outside, off-duty jobs (permitted in the fire department). Wagner agreed. Kennedy also demanded a guarantee of a $600-a-year raise for his men to compensate them for their lost opportunities. For embattled Bob Wagner, fighting this year for his political life against Tammany Hall, the Kennedy ultimatum was too much. "I'm the mayor." he told Kennedy firmly...
Leaving the mayor's home, Steve Kennedy called a midnight press conference, declared bitterly that he was quitting because of Wagner's "inertia, indecision and drift." He cleaned out his desk, patted his .38-cal. Police Special, and walked out of headquarters with his eyes glistening. The mayor was ready with a successor, an oldtime cop and Kennedy protégé with a fine record, Chief Inspector Michael J. Murphy, 47. Few of Kennedy's friends could fault Bob Wagner. Taking one consideration with another, he had been a long time in applying the kind...