Word: bernstein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Velasco painting. Maldonado's triad of women--the seductive Mary, loyal Rebecca and unattainable Sarah--fill the traditional female novelistic roles of whore, mother and virgin. Maldonado's purposeless orders come from two spies, the nationless Timon and the clove-smelling Lebanese Ayub, and a Mexican economics professor Bernstein and the bullying Director General. The only thing which binds all characters is their obsession with Mexican oil. Oil permeates the entire novel, motivating violence and friendship. It is everywhere--smeared between a woman's breasts and spilled in the streets...
...works, characters serve as allegories for social classes and periods in Mexican history. The same holds true in The Hydra Head. Timon and Ayub represent Arab competition with Mexico in the oil market. Their opposition to the president stems from Mexico's refusal to join OPEC. The director and Bernstein stand for Mexico's business sector's desire to gain control of government policy-making concerning oil. In the middle, the confused Maldonado, with his changing faces and indecisiveness, symbolizes Mexico. Fuentes makes him a converted Jew both to emphasize his transformations and his antipathy towards the Arab world...
Betsy Richmond, playing at first singles, and Martha Roberts, in the number two slot, managed to defeat their Penn opponents for the Crimson's only two bright spots of the weekend. Richmond knocked off Sally Zasloff 6-1, 6-3, while Roberts needed three sets to edge Jan Bernstein...
...Libby Pierpont and Sally Roberts came closest to snaring a third point for Harvard. After Pierpont and Roberts split sets with Bernstein and Sue Silver, it all came down to double match point in a final set tiebreaker. But Bernstein cracked an ace past Roberts' forehand to end the suspense...
Brandies students took over the Bernstein Marcus Administration Center during a march there yesterday organized by the Brandies Divestment Movement...