Word: wagner
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When Kirsten Flagstad in 1935 made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Wagner's Die Walkuere, the audience cheered and the press groped for comparisons with "the irrecoverable magic" of Swedish-born Soprano Olive Fremstad.* Last week another Swedish Wagnerian soprano strode the Met's stage, and this time the comparison was to the "incomparable" Flagstad herself. The debutante: 41-year-old Birgit Nilsson, whose appearance in a new production of Tristan und Isolde touched off the kind of debut furor the Met's Wagnerians have not witnessed in a quarter-century...
Likewise, Kennedy is helpless in bargaining for New York's tempting bloc of votes. Mayor Robert F. Wagner of New York City, leader of the state delegation, plans a shot at the second spot and also must remain quiet on Kennedy...
...announced some similar ambitions. Indiana Congressman Charles Halleek admitted he was available as vice-presidential nominee on a Republican ticket with either Nelson Rockefeller or Richard Nixon. But, he added gloomily, "I don't think it's in the cards." And New York's Mayor Robert Wagner, who had just suffered a blow at home with the defeat of a school-bond proposal, was just as willing to take second place on the Democratic ticket: "Anyone who says he isn't interested would be kidding himself and kidding the public...
After study at Wittenburg College and the Hamman Divinity School, he obtained his D.D. at Wagner College in 1948. In that year he also completed his Doctrine of the Word. After giving the Rockwell Lectures at Rice Institute last January, he published those addresses under the title, The Structure of Ethics...
Delinquent Irishmen. "Let's forget about Mayor Wagner for a few moments and listen to the man who was mayor of New York in 1825. He wrote in his diary: 'One of the evidences of the degeneracy of our morals and of the inefficiency of our police is to be seen in the frequent instances of murder by stabbing. The city is infested by gangs of hardened wretches.' One doesn't have to look very far to see whom Philip Hone blames for this distress: Irishmen, 'the most ignorant and consequently the most obstinate white...