Word: bernsteining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...psychological backlash against the press has also helped Nixon. From the moment that Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward began their pursuit of Watergate in the Washington Post, some Americans have subscribed to the theory that a liberal press was out to undo the results of the 1972 Nixon landslide. The implications of that belief are troubling: they carry the suggestion of a sort of cultural civil war, between Nixon's America and a suspect elite that trafficks mostly in information and services...
While Eliot House's "elite" reputation may have existed prior to Finley's term as master, he did little to refute the image. He held "Grand Dinners" for Eliot students with guests such as T.S. Eliot, Leonard Bernstein, and notables from The New York Times, which his father edited from 1920 to 1940. Though he never followed his father's path into journalism, Finley edited. The Advocate during his senior year at Harvard and probably gained at least a taste for elitism as a member of several clubs, including the A D the Phoenix S.K., and the Hasty Pudding...
...simplistic, distorted and unacceptable." Headlined REAGAN'S AMERICA: AND THE POOR GET POORER, the Newsweek story contended that Administration policies were increasing both the total numbers and the suffering of disadvantaged Americans. The article prompted more than 900 letters, "most of them con," Newsweek Editor Lester Bernstein said last week. "We obviously struck a nerve...
Newsweek printed the column without demurrer. Said Bernstein: "He [Friedman] felt strongly about it. He has a column. He was entitled. But we do not think we were wrong: the data demonstrated that Reagan policy so far was increasing the number of people below the poverty line...
Ever since 1943, when Leonard Bernstein, then 25, became famous by stepping in for Bruno Walter with the New York Philharmonic, the musical world has been waiting-impatiently-for the arrival of the next comparably compelling American conductor. Bernstein is now 63, and the wait goes on. Lorin Maazel? Indisputably talented, though sometimes willful in his interpretations, Maazel, 52, was born in France to American parents and, apart from his stint as conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra (1972-82), has made his reputation in Europe. This fall he takes over as director of the Vienna State Opera, the most prestigious...