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Crowded lecture bills and administrative hassles will be far from the mind of Professor of Korean Studies Edward W. Wagner '49 this summer as he begins an exploration of the history of the bureaucracy under Korea's 518-year Choson dynasty...
...Wagner will have plenty of time to dig deeper into Choson history, as he and eight other Faculty of Arts and Sciences colleagues retire at the end of this academic year...
Perversely, music played an important role in the Nazi concentration camps. Loudspeakers blared Schubert, Wagner and march music, while, less officially, prisoners smuggled in instruments and put on private musicales. In "model" camps such as Theresienstadt (Terezin) in Bohemia, the inmates were even encouraged to perform for visiting Red Cross workers to show that they were being treated humanely. The late French composer Olivier Messiaen wrote one of this century's most illuminating chamber works, the Quartet for the End of Time, while incarcerated in a Silesian camp. Messiaen survived. But for most victims time was something that indeed came...
...little mind-bending mayhem. For four nights next week, ABC will plunge viewers into the bright, bizarre world of Wild Palms. The six-hour mini-series is the brainchild of two intriguing newcomers to network TV: Oliver Stone, the director of JFK and Platoon, and Bruce Wagner, writer of a hallucinated comic strip in Details magazine on which the mini-series is based. A few minutes into this futuristic fantasy, and viewers numbed by TV's docudrama deluge will realize they've stumbled onto something special. A few more minutes, and a lot of them might be zapping...
...Students have given wonderful support--I've heard overwhelmingly positive responses," Wagner said...