Word: bernsteining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Philips). Soprano Hildegard Behrens is a stellar Wagnerian in Leonard Bernstein's incandescent performance of the most erotic of operas...
...There's ghoulish side to journalism," she says, explaining that similar stories of human hardship recur, coming "back to haunt you." "Once a reporter has done a story, it's old news. The editor wants something different," adds Bernstein, who thinks reporters should have more opportunities to do follow-up stories as in-depth projects...
...Journalists show a superficial callousness about tragedy. You want to write sincerely about the down and out, yet your professional side exults at each new horror story you discover because if 'll make good story," says Bernstein. "I can remember being appalled that my father was hoping Winston Churchill would die [at a convenient press-run time] to put him on the cover of Newsweek...
...Harvard, Bernstein is taking courses in social justice and government. She says she is also interested in exploring how students on campus today are different from when she lived in Cambridge...
...Bernstein sees herself as a continuing vocie of the '60s generation of protest, and refuses to admit she might have been just a "blip in history"--concluding. "If you're not angry when you're young, when are you going...