Word: wagnerism
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While all this was going on, the President sent a message urging Congress to pass a bill that may add a chapter to the quietly discordant history of the 79th Congress. It was the Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill for a national health insurance plan, to be paid in part by compulsory salary deductions, in part from the Treasury, i.e., by added taxes. The bill, enthusiastically backed by Harry Truman, would guarantee medical care and hospitalization to every U.S. citizen working for a living, and for his dependents...
...Wagner: Act III, Die Walkure (Helen Traubel, Herbert Janssen, Irene Jessner and vocal ensemble from the Metropolitan Opera Company, and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia, 16 sides). Victor recorded Act I in Vienna, Act II in Berlin. Now Columbia finishes the job. The Met's mighty Brunnhilde comes through a good yo-ho above everyone else. Performance: good...
...Business and Big Labor had agreed on the principle of collective bargaining. This was the issue which broke up the 1919 conference. But in A.D. 1945, boasting that all delegates agreed on collective bargaining was like announcing that the conference, eight years after the Supreme Court, had declared the Wagner Act constitutional...
Cold Garrets & Warm Music. A considerable amount of immortal music has been written in cold garrets, with an empty larder in the background. Richard Wagner and Felix Mendelssohn lived comfortable lives, but Mozart, after a life of penny-counting, was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave, and Franz Schubert sold his songs for as little...
...love stories. Medieval ladies embroidered scenes from the tale on fine linen and silk; medieval craftsmen enshrined the lovers on gold and ivory and wood. Tristan and Iseult were also favored by scores of poets, including Chaucer, Matthew Arnold, Swinburne, Tennyson, Hardy, Edwin Arlington Robinson and by Composer Richard Wagner, who built the legend into an opera...