Word: admirable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since then, Bernstein has been making it everywhere, with a versatility that" reminds his more enthusiastic admir ers of Renaissance Man. In an age of specialization, he refuses to stay put in any cultural pigeonhole. He is a Mickey Mantle of music, a brilliant switch hitter, conducting with his right hand and composing with his left?not to mention several other occupations that would be full-time careers for other men. Like a juggler whose oranges have suddenly acquired a demonic will of their own, Bernstein today finds himself with five careers in the air at once...
...polling places-and all night long Mrs. Keith listened to the pleas and sometimes to the sound of gunfire, as the aroused voters fought their way to the ballot boxes. Later she followed the bare foot, wondering peasants into the hitherto forbidden Malacañan Palace to sit admir ingly at the feet of their new President. Author Keith suffers from the conviction that every least thing that happens to her, her husband and their only son George is of overwhelming interest, and she records their conversation in some of the least plausible dialogue to appear outside Smilin' Jack...