Word: bernstein
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Andrew Bernstein, professor of philosophy at Pace University in Pleasantville, New York, delivered a speech entitled "Pro-Choice is Pro-Life in which he detailed how the philosophy of objectives supports a woman's right to have an abortion...
...greater visibility would soon follow. But bricks and mortar can do only so much. The Kennedy Center, which houses an opera house, a concert hall and theaters, did score some coups, including a dazzling visit by the Berlin Opera in 1975 and a now legendary Fidelio conducted by Leonard Bernstein in 1979. Still, the also-ran image persisted; not even the appointment of the respected cellist Mstislav Rostropovich to head the National Symphony Orchestra in 1977 gave the town's homegrown musical institutions a wider visibility...
Slatkin, a baseball fan since childhood whose greatest sacrifice in moving to Washington has been giving up his St. Louis Cardinals season tickets, pointedly devoted his entire opening concert to music by such American composers as Bernstein, Howard Hanson and the Washington-born jazz icon Duke Ellington. "Because you are called the National Symphony," he says, "you have an obligation, not just out of a sense of duty but out of real love, to present the music of your own country. We should be thinking of our own repertoire in the same way that the Austrians view Mozart...
...Medicine: localized problems, notably the painful hardening of breast tissue, can accompany implants, but as yet no compelling evidence links the leakage of silicone gel to more debilitating disease. "This is the beginning of the end of the breast-implant litigation and may well have wider ramifications," predicts David Bernstein, a law professor at Virginia's George Mason University...
...Anya E. Bernstein, architect of the survey and an assistant head tutor in the Government Department, said she worked with experts on survey research to select the questions...