Word: wagnerism
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...York's liberal Democrats, led by Mayor Wagner (of all people), seem to have won their long struggle against the tight party control of Tammany leader Carmine G. De Sapio...
Weakened by the loss of the governorship and by his small margin of victory in the primaries last fall, De Sapio has been on un-easy political footing for the past few months. And yesterday, by taking control of the state delegation to the Democratic National Convention, Mayor Wagner effectively ended De Sapio's national power, and reduced him to a mere county leader on the local scene...
...imminent demise of De Sapio is a welcome sign that the state Democratic Party is recovering from the Rockefeller fiasco. In the past two years, De Sapio has done more harm than good for the party, both on the national and local levels. While Mayor Wagner is not the most forceful of politicians, he at least will not be tainted with the label of "boss." And as De Sapio has been decidedly anti-liberal, New Yorkers can now expect to see a resurgence of the Lehman-Finletter-Roosevelt wing of the party. The moribund condition of Democratic politics...
...tell you/I've just been talking to the butcher/And he tells me/That the price of chicken has gone up three cents a pound!" For Italian-opera lovers he repeats the sequence in Verdian style ("Gilda! II prezzo di polio"), and for unabashed German romantics a snatch of Wagner ("Ach, was ward mir heut' angetan...
Because Nilsson's voice is so indestructible, the public, happily, will have all the more opportunity to hear it. One looks forward to further demonstrations of her singing, especially in the Wagnerian repertoire which, since Flagstad's retirement from the stage, has been handled by second-rate sopranos. Wagner days are probably back at the Met, even if a Heldentenor remains lacking. Wagnerities, rejoice, there is a new heroine for you to acclaim! IAN STRASFOGEL