Word: wagnerism
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Donohone, how; Wagner, 2. Pasierb, 3; MeCaig, 4; Duffy, 5; Solomon. 6; Hill. 7; Chapdelaine, stroke; Hanover, coxawain...
...Merit), and a brief career as spear-carrier in New Dealing ranks. Franklin also had some impressive supporters, all of them conveniently remote from the 20th's immediate concerns: Connecticut's Governor Chester Bowles, New York's former Governor Herbert Lehman, the ailing U.S. Senator Bob Wagner...
...Salome" contains many construction and orchestration devices which are seldom found in the earlier Italian operas. For example, Strauss makes some use of the "leitmotif," (a melody with a specific connotation) which is so conspicuous in Wagner's operas. One particularly striking example is the theme which usually accompanies the religious statements of Jokanaan, and which later appears greatly distorted, after his decapitation. Another use of this device, combined with an intentional and effectively weird orchestration is found in Salome's several repetitions of the phrase "give me the head of Jokanaan...
...Oscar Wagner, onetime dean of the Juilliard Graduate School, who went to Los Angeles to help, put White's idea into whole tones: "The day is gone when all a fellow needed was a little talent, a velvet collar and long hair. Now he must have a more versatile education and that's what we're working toward...
...battle, the measure reflected the Administration's stubborn scorn of compromise. After 3½ weeks of hearings and haggling, New Dealing Chairman Elbert D. Thomas reported it out exactly the way the White House had recommended. It drew the teeth of the Taft-Hartley Act and reinstated the Wagner Act with a few minor changes. Republicans in committee had tried to offer some amendments, but Thomas' Democratic majority had turned down every one, reporting the bill out on a straight 8-to-5 party vote. Vermont's mild George Aiken commented bitterly: "Might makes right." To Ohio...