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BAYREUTH (July 25-Aug. 28) offers a new production by Wolfgang Wagner of Die Meistersinger under Karl Böhm's baton, a Ring cycle conducted by Lorin Maazel, Parsifal under Pierre Boulez's musical direction, plus a Lohengrin and Tristan und Isolde...
...N.R.A. points out that autos kill three times as many Americans as guns each year, and asks archly: "Why not ban them?" (One reply: Autos are registered. Why not guns?) N.R.A. officials also cite a study made by University of Pennsylvania Sociologist Marvin E. Wolfgang of 588 criminal homicides committed in Philadelphia over a four-year period. He concluded that, given "sufficient motivation or provocation," it makes no difference whether a gun is handy?if not, the offender "would use a knife to stab or fists to beat his victim to death." But Wolfgang has since modified that view...
...France, Germany or Italy -or in many another country-would profess outright allegiance to anarchy, but its basic tenets inspire many of their leaders. Germany's "Red Rudi" Dutschke and France's "Red Danny" Cohn-Bendit openly espouse anarchy. "In theory," says West German Political Scientist Wolfgang Abendroth, "the students are a species of Marxists, but in practice they are anarchists." Not since the anarchist surge in the Spanish Civil War has the Western world seen a movement so enthusiastically devoted to the destruction of law, order and society in the name of unlimited individual freedom...
...WOLFGANG Amadeus Mozart is history's most famous child prodigy. A virtuoso clavierist and a more than competent organist and violinist as well, he was equally boggling as performer, improviser, and composer. He fashioned his first minuets at the age of six, his first symphony approaching nine, his first oratorio at eleven, and his first opera at twelve...
Whereas the South once accepted public lynchings as a community sport, the white racists who still kill Negroes are now increasingly prosecuted and punished. In three decades, the U.S. incidence of murder and robbery has decreased relative to the population by 30%. Says Sociologist Marvin Wolfgang, president of the American Society of Criminology: "Contrary to the rise in public fear, crimes of violence are not significantly increasing...