Word: wagnerism
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...leaderless since Bronx Boss Ed Flynn became ill last year, still have not fixed on a candidate to oppose able Republican Senator Irving M. Ives. Since Averell Harriman has so far refused to accept the nomination, party leaders may have to fall back on Manhattan Borough President Robert Wagner Jr., son of the author of the Wagner Labor Relations Act. In that case, the Republicans would have an advantage, but the Democrats may dump Wagner in favor of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. There is an argument among Democrats over whether Junior's name balances his political immaturity which...
...symbol of their alliance was the Taft-Hartley Act, the Republican revision of the Wagner Act. Truman and labor agreed that Taft-Hartley was a slave labor act and (as the Democratic Party platform put it last week) operated "in an arbitrary manner...
...Richard Wagner's grandsons were at it again. Last year they shocked old-line Wagnerites by ditching the old three-dimensional scenery, stripping heroines of their winged helmets, and generally flouting sacred traditions. Last week, continuing to modernize grandfather, they opened the second postwar season at Bayreuth with a streamlined version of Tristan and Isolde...
Designer Wieland Wagner achieved most of his atmosphere by the use of lighting effects rather than scenery, and his sets contained a minimum of props. Act I was furnished with a single couch for Isolde (not a sign of the usual sail or sailors); there was no castle in Act II and none of the customary trees in Act III. The stage sloped so steeply that Tristan on his couch almost seemed in danger of rolling into the orchestra...
Much of the credit for that success belonged to Austrian Conductor Herbert von Karajan, 43. In some ways, Karajan was an innovator too. He rearranged the seating positions of the orchestra to suit himself, regardless of frowns and the fact that Richard Wagner himself had laid down what those positions should be. As a conductor who pays more attention to the orchestra than to the stage, he kept the singers uncomfortably on edge. They fretted that he might neglect to give them their cues, especially as he sometimes conducts with his eyes closed. "If I didn't know...