Word: bernsteining
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...doesn't hurt that the program has a board of prestigious outside advisors that includes Leonard Bernstein '39 and Joseph Papp which helps recommend different artists. Mayman stresses that the Office usually acts in response to requests from students in bringing guests to Harvard...
...year degree. Most community colleges do not even coordinate course requirements with the universities that accept their graduates. Thus many transfer students are dismayed to discover, after completing two years at a community college, that few of their credits will count toward a bachelor's degree. Says Alison Bernstein, the Ford Foundation program officer who is directing the new project: "We want to help ensure that community-college students will have the proper credentials to be accepted at four-year institutions and will be able to handle the work when they get there...
...fathom being with a woman who's not in good shape." Glancing at the tall, slender, dark-haired woman pedaling next to him, he observes, "Any time you see a woman who knows how to sweat like that, you just gotta get to know her." The woman, A.J. Bernstein, 35, a freelance photographer, has the same ideal. "I'm not turned on by flab," she says. "Men get hostile when I take off my clothes and they discover what kind of shape I'm in. Two of them started lifting weights within a week of meeting...
...mood and pace were allegro, but the program was strictly "Home Suite Home" for Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein, who marked his 65th year last week by returning to his birthplace in Lawrence, Mass. The big day began with a parade through the middle of town in a 1928 antique Ford, and went on to include a stop at the old family home (24 Juniper Street). As passionate about political issues as he is on the podium, Bernstein strongly endorsed the nuclear freeze movement in a speech. But the maestro was irked by Senator Edward Kennedy's failure to show...
Still, there is a problem with the music itself. Like some other composers of his generation, Bernstein no longer fully trusts his basically conservative musical convictions. The eclectic A Quiet Place is fundamentally tonal, but its melodies only infrequently blossom, as if Bernstein were inhibited by 30 years of modernism from writing the kind of straightforward, expressive music that obviously agrees with him. Instead, he has compromised with a bloated, percussive score that, stripped of its bluster and its "commitment," is too often little more than a plaintive bleat. Only in the orchestral interludes, affecting, purely musical ruminations that speak...