Word: wagnerism
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...many enemies on the force and in city hall as he had behind bars. But the people liked him, despite the fact that his rigorous code had at various times bruised the feelings of just about every powerful minority group in town. The papers urged Mayor Robert Wagner to reappoint Kennedy to a second five-year term, and early last week Bob Wagner announced that he would...
...Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire. "Only two people in the hall were impressed by the music," he recalls. "One was a very unimportant young man. Me. The other was Giacomo Puccini." Dallapiccola, who for a time composed in a largely traditional, tonal style (he has always been an ardent Wagner fan), gradually started learning twelve-tone technique, teaching himself by studying Schoenberg's scores. "But in those days nobody appreciated my music," and he and his wife were sometimes reduced to a diet of water and one roll...
...with the fabled Ernestine Schumann-Heink, who sang the first Klytaemnestra but vowed never to do it again. "It was frightful," said she. "We were a set of madwomen. There is nothing beyond Elektra. We have lived to reach the farthest boundary in dramatic writing for the voice with Wagner. But Strauss goes beyond...
Married. Janet Ellen Wagner Frank, 29, photographer's model and widow of Lawyer Julian Frank, who was killed, along with 33 others, in a plane crash 13 months ago when a dynamite bomb exploded near his seat in an unsolved murder-or-suicide mystery that has prevented the payoff to his widow of $997,500 in insurance; and Joseph F. Rafferty, 37, newly appointed San Francisco sales manager of the Phillips-Van Heusen shirt company; in New York City on St. Valentine...
Steady Rise. As might be expected, Bowen found that unions have their greatest impact on wages in boom times rather than in recessions. Nevertheless, in the 35 years of the relatively weak craft union, prior to the Wagner Act in 1935, constant-dollar wages showed a slightly larger percentage increase (from 53? to $1.13 an hour: 114%) than in the 25 years since ($1.13 to $2.20: 95%), when the powerful industrial union has come into its own. Since 1900 the output per man-hour in U.S. manufacturing has risen at an average annual rate of 2%-3% a year. Wage...