Word: wagnerism
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...booked into the theater where ex-Vichyman Alfred Cortot had played the piano to mixed cheers and boos (TiME, Jan. 27). When Flagstad walked onstage, the crowd was silent a moment-then broke into applause. To more applause, and tumultuous cheers, she sang some Grieg songs, and excerpts from Wagner in German. Said Flagstad, heading for London: "My conscience is clear...
Little Hendrik was born in Rotterdam in 1882 a few hours after Richard Wagner had finished Parsifal (the events had no bearing on each other, he whimsically explains). After recording this fact the author supplies six successive childhood memories, each followed by a digression in genealogy, i.e., the story of mankind. As achievements in gentle claptrap these sections are all too imitable, as were the sections of Van Loon's previous books which they imitate. Example: "[The ice age] was the period during which the human race went to school, for it was a question of invent or perish...
...futures list for the 80th Congress are these propositions: ¶Legislation which will eliminate economic crises, but without socialistic controls which "deaden free enterprise." ¶ A housing bill. He is co-author with Democrats Wagner and Ellender of a bill to provide $88 million in Federal funds for 500,000 units of low-rent public housing...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Bach's Ich Ruf zu Dir, Second Brandenburg Concerto, C Minor Passacaglia and Fugue, Come, Sweet Death; Wagner's love music from Tristan und Isolde. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5:45 p.m., ABC). Wagner's Lohengrin, with Helen Traubel, Lauritz Melchior...