Word: bernstein
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...Carl Bernstein recently said that celebrity news-and the public's desire for it-has led to the decline of good public affairs journalism. Do you agree? -Andrew Lee, Berkley, Calif. That is a little unsettling to me, how much we have become a celebrity culture country. I was recently back out in the Midwest and because the world is flat in a lot of ways, as Tom Friedman would say, if you go into Sioux Falls, South Dakota and you see the young people, they look just like the young people who are dressed in Beverly Hills...
...season have close Harvard ties. On the programs for the November and March concerts are “Overture to The Great Gatsby,” composed by John H. Harbison ’60, and “Dances from West Side Story,” by Leonard Bernstein ’39. Gustav Holst, whose “The Planets Suite” will be paired with Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony tomorrow night, was a member of Harvard’s faculty and also conducted the Sodality’s second incarnation, the Harvard University Orchestra...
...something urgent about the human condition, but that message remains lost, obfuscated by itself, obfuscated by everything that is not said, by what should have been told and was not, and by what was told but should not have been.—Staff writer Sanders I. Bernstein can be reached at sbernst@fas.harvard.edu...
Rostropovich went by the nickname "Slava," meaning glory - or, in the translation preferred by the American composer Leonard Bernstein, "possessed by the gods." I knew Slava through my father, Lynn Harrell, who belongs to a generation of cellists that inherited an instrument Rostropovich had changed forever. My memory of our meetings is of Slava's effusive affection: from bear hugs to damp kisses on both cheeks. Everyone he met - hotel workers, the Emperor of Japan, even the Pope - left with wet cheeks. Both with and without his instrument, it seemed, it was his goal to touch as many people...
...long tutorial beginning sophomore fall. “The choice to continue requiring two semesters of Social Studies 10 was a response to an overwhelming chorus from students and faculty who felt a year long sequence was really important to the Social Studies curriculum,” said Anya Bernstein, director of undergraduate studies. “It is the one common experience for Social Studies concentrators,” said last year’s course head, Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences Tommie Shelby. The new concentration policy, approved in the spring of 2006, is part...