Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert F. Wagner, ex-Senator from New York who resigned last June because of ill health, applied for the pension coming to him for 43 years of public service (state legislator, judge and Senator...
...critics liked it; one thought Mad Tristan "beautifully presented." But the Times spoke for the majority: "Regurgitation is a hygienic, not an artistic, process. Salvador Dali, turning aside from surrealistic painting to drama, has swallowed Wagner's Tristan and Isolde and spewed it up with much of the murky contents of his unconscious adhering to the gobbets...
...customers who still did not get the pitch, the program notes explained: "Dali sees the whole romantic philosophy of Wagner as an uninterrupted complex of impotence. An exasperating procession of wheelbarrows, heavy with the earth of reality, struggling up toward the inaccessible heaven of the ecstasy of love, at the summit of which there is only a precipice-love in death and death in love . . ." Only the New Statesman and Nation had the wit to smile at such Daliance and say the sanest thing heard in the hubbub: "How odd that people should have taken Mad Tristan ... so seriously...
...Thomas E. Dewey been elected President, John Foster Dulles would probably have been his Secretary of State. Last week Governor Dewey did the next best thing for his longtime friend and adviser: he appointed Dulles to succeed retiring U.S. Senator Robert F. Wagner...
...arms program to back it up, but reserved decision on how much should be spent on arms. Dulles will serve until December 1. He told reporters that he had "no expectation" of becoming a candidate in the special November election to pick a successor for the remainder of Wagner's term, which expires...