Word: bernsteining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DURING THIS TIME of self-examination I happened to stumble upon Tom Wolfe's book Radical Chic, in which he describes another special party that Bernstein hosted a decade and a half...
That party was held on Bernstein's own turf in a Park Avenue duplex. Tuxedoes would have been oh-so-formal for this crowd. Italian designers had the day. The party was a union between the glitterati and radical politics, a marriage of convenience that for a brief moment made urban revolutionaries the darlings of Manhattan society...
...guest of honor 16 years ago was not Bernstein himself, but Don Cox, who was pinch-hitting for Huey Newton, the minister of Defense for the Black Panthers who had just been arrested. That night the richest and most liberal New Yorkers gathered to hold a fund-raiser for 21 Black Panthers who had been jailed months earlier...
Some 15 years later Bernstein was up to his old tricks. In front of a bunch of pretentious, tuxedo-clad, self-construed student-leaders at Harvard, he preached about how the mythic "Enemy" prevents Americans from working for world peace--how fear of the Soviet Union stops this country from socializing industry and perhaps making life a little better for the worse off in this country...
...Bernstein concluded by thanking the audience for making the "experience" possible, and furthermore saying that the power of the visceral talk came from them. No way. The audience had nothing to do with...