Word: wagnerism
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Delinquent Irishmen. "Let's forget about Mayor Wagner for a few moments and listen to the man who was mayor of New York in 1825. He wrote in his diary: 'One of the evidences of the degeneracy of our morals and of the inefficiency of our police is to be seen in the frequent instances of murder by stabbing. The city is infested by gangs of hardened wretches.' One doesn't have to look very far to see whom Philip Hone blames for this distress: Irishmen, 'the most ignorant and consequently the most obstinate white...
...Democratic Senator Thomas C. Hennings, started off an investigation of juvenile delinquency, with two days of hearings in Manhattan on what the Federal Government could do to help combat teen-age violence. Hennings & Co. heard plenty of suggestions-from Governor Nelson Rockefeller, New York's Mayor Robert Wagner, an assortment of city officials-but it was all pretty familiar, e.g., the Federal Government ought to curb interstate shipments of firearms, give the cities more money for youth programs...
Double Entry. In Charles City, Iowa, the Press ran a classified ad: "I will not be responsible for any debts other than my own. Kenneth Wagner, Nashua"; next day ran a followup: "I've paid all his bills. There's none left to pay. Mrs. Kenneth Wagner...
What started him singing again was Los Angeles' Roger Wagner Chorale, the West Coast equivalent of Manhattan's Robert Shaw Chorale. For fun, Oliver began singing with the group. One day Dr. Hugo Strelitzer, a well-known voice coach, heard him and made it his business to train that powerful voice...
...proof was Threni. Since then, Oliver has scored other successes singing four Mozart arias with the Santa Monica Symphony, and as Zuniga in the Hollywood Bowl's Carmen. He takes as many as five lessons each week, is now being trained by Strelitzer to sing all of Wagner's bass roles. Oliver insists that he will not turn professional. But he knows that most bassos do not reach their peak until their mid-40s and admits that the idea is attractive. Says he: "There is a great temptation when you have that feeling of raw power over...