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...Lewis Rubinstein...
Based on an extensive review of scientific studies made in the past decade, the report concludes that new evidence has "significantly strengthened" the earlier report's findings. Impetus for the new effort came from University of North Carolina Clinical Psychologist Eli A. Rubinstein, who worked on the 1972 study and was disappointed by its small impact on public opinion and network policy. Prompted by a Surgeon General's follow-up report on the dangers of smoking, he proposed an update on the TV study. Said Rubinstein: "It is just as clear-cut that if a large sample...
...Rubinstein and David Pearl, chief of the behavioral sciences research branch of NIMH and the project's director, stress that cleaning up TV cannot be achieved by Government regulation. Says Rubinstein: "We are not advocates of Government control or any constraints on the First Amendment." Adds Pearl: "Viewers will be interested in watching programs with less violence. The television industry should not be as definite in thinking this [violence] is what the public wants...
...history has it that Tchaikovsky taught Taneyev everything he knew (about composition). Nikolas Rubinstein, brother of the pianist extraordinaire of the nineteenth century but unrelated to Artur Rubinstein, taught him piano at the conservatory. The fledgling Taneyev also followed in Rubinstein's footsteps by taking over Nikolas's job when he passed away. Then he took over the Moscow Conservatory...
...ALWAYS liked the music. He started with piano lessons when he was four. In junior high, he won the Griffith Foundation New York-area piano competition; in high school, after his third attempt, he won the New New York Times/WQXR piano competition. Judges for the latter competition included Horowitz, Rubinstein and Serkin, Krieger recalls, "and if I don't remember which one judged the contest, I can tell you this: they all had blue eyes...