Word: bernstein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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West Side Story (book by Arthur Laurents; music and lyrics by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim) gave the new season what should prove a very popular retelling of Romeo and Juliet-in terms of youthful gang warfare. It also suggests that the salvation of the serious Broadway musical may lie in neither text nor music-which, trying to coalesce, all too often merely collide-but in dancing...
...translate into the barbarism of West Side Story any more than did Greek-tragedy incests and betrayals into the primitivism of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge. Fire-escape balcony scenes and corner-drugstore Friar Lawrences are not only distracting but tinged with bathos. Similarly, Composer Bernstein does better with his harsh, tingling music for the dancers than with his lyrical duets for the lovers, and Arthur Laurents' libretto catches rasping, inarticulate hate better than yearning, inarticulate love. When it turns away from what is savage, West Side Story proves more sentimental than touching...
...will produce a one-shot on Southeast Asia, and a new series called Wisdom will present filmed portraits of Dr. Vannevar Bush, Jacques Maritain, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso and David Ben-Gurion. Wide Wide World returns Sundays to alternate with Omnibus, which promises to bring back Joseph Welch, Leonard Bernstein, and "some bright new faces." Crooner Eddie Fisher will team up with George Gobel in a new variety series, Giselle MacKenzie gets her own show, Jill Corey takes the spotlight on Your Hit Parade. In addition to his Tegular CBS chores, Alfred Hitchcock will produce and direct ten films...
...Bernstein urged putting an end to Britian's "transitional restrictions" on free conversion of sterling into gold and dollars, since, he said, de facto convertability already exists in New York and Zurich. A reserve currency must be convertabile, he said. International institutions, such as the Monetary Fund, can combat drains on gold and dollar reserves, he added...
Cause of strain on the United Kingdom's reserves have come from the weak payments position of Britain and of the other countries in the sterling area and from speculation against sterling, he said. Bernstein attributed the poor payments position of sterling area countries also to inflation, and called for strict financial policies there as well as in Britain. fied, he said by the large amount of sterling held by non-sterling banks due to war payments to Europe and South America. When sterling is under pressure these banks tend to liquidate their holdings, he explained...