Word: wagnerism
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...heavy pencil on his lyrics, "by my belief that [he] also rewrote Kipling." It was "exceedingly characteristic" of Henley, said George Bernard Shaw, to be deeply puzzled by Shaw's fury when a Shavian article in praise of Mozart was "edited" by Henley into a savage attack on Wagner...
...Wagner: Parsifal...
PHILIP S. WAGNER, M.D. Lexington...
Liberal spending, if necessary to create federally financed jobs, had been part & parcel of the original Murray-Wagner proposal; an unbalanced budget had been the financial keystone of Franklin Roosevelt's and Harry Truman's administrations. Federal outgo and income had not matched since June 1930, just after the beginning of the last great depression, and the national debt now stood at $26.2 billion. But when the Taft amendment was put before the Senate, "Dear Alben" Barkley spoke only a few mild-mannered words of protest. Then Georgia's economy-minded George rose to thunder...
...Wagner: Excerpts from Tristan und Isolde (Helen Traubel and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). Rodzinski's men, going full blast, are outshouted by the queen of the Met's Wagnerian hive. Performance: good...