Word: wagnerism
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...generations, Wagner scholars (including famed Biographer Ernest Newman) tried in vain to get a look at the largest collection of Wagneriana outside the Wagner shrine at Bayreuth-the "Burrell Collection." Last week, more than 60 years after Englishwoman Mary Burrell began the job of assembling it, the best of her collection was published: Letters of Richard Wagner (Macmillan; $10.50). For Wagner scholars, it was the end of a long, long trail...
...Fred Wagner dropped Kirkland's winning two points in the last seconds of a tight Kirkland-Winthrop A League House game yesterday. The final score was 37 to 35. Two other A League games saw Dudley, who lost to Leverett Monday, bow again to Eliot, 39 to 31, and Leverett take Dunster...
More disturbing than a number of factual errors is Wagner's misinterpretation of events to suit his purposes. He turns the undergraduate Franklin D. Roosevelt into a democrat whose interests were "all work and no sham...
...heavy style makes the book more difficult to read: Wagner tells us that Zechariah Chafee is a man "around whose head the faggots of fire in the battle for personal liberty have flamed unchecked for decades...
...Wagner means well, but Samutol Eliot Morison is still the man to read on Harvard history...