Word: bernard
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...FIXER. An adaptation of Bernard Malamud's Pulitzer prizewinning novel that is faithful to the original in its impassioned portrait of the dignity of individual man. John Frankenheimer directs it with taste, and the actors-notably Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm -are all transcendent in their roles...
...summa cum laude graduate of Harvard, Walker prepared for the job by studying for three years with the legendary Bernard Berenson in Italy. He helped "B.B." to prepare his definitive Italian Painters of the Renaissance, a background that proved invaluable when he joined the new National Gallery as curator at its founding under then Director David Edward Finley. When Samuel H. Kress, Chester Dale and others offered their collections to the new gallery, it fell to Walker to make selections from them and to authenticate debated pictures. Walker became director himself in 1956; during his term, he almost doubled...
PICTURES OF FIDELMAN by Bernard Malamud. 208 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
Another rueful Jewish hero! After Elkin and Roth and Bellow and Bruce Jay Friedman and Yahweh-knows-who! Will it never end? Apparently not. And what is most trying, this latest exemplar deserves special attention. For Bernard Malamud has invented a mixed-up little anti-hero all his own: the schlemiel-saint-eyes on heaven, feet on the banana peel. He has appeared in short stories (The Magic Barrel) and novels (A New Life, The Fixer). The Malamud man wobbles between laughter and tears. One minute he can be all suffering profile, squirming against his private cross. The next minute...
...proposal was referred to the Committee on Ordinances for a hearing June 9. Councillor Bernard E. Goldberg, chairman of the Ordinance Committee, said that because the proposal is controversial, at least one hearing will be essential. Goldberg said that such a motion might only increase rents in the City, because landlords would pass on the expense of increased assessments to their tenants...