Word: bernsteins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dylan Thomas; Omnibus approached the end of its best TV season with a technically superb visit to Harvard University that featured a strong supporting cast of such alumni as Massachusetts' U.S. Senators Leverett Saltonstall and John Kennedy, Johns Hopkins' Vice President Dr. Barry Wood, and Composer Leonard Bernstein. Later Max Liebman contributed another of his spectaculars, Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl: it had a fine satiric idea (U.S. career girls, past and present), a talented cast (Bert Lahr, Nancy Walker, Helen Gallagher, Tammy Grimes. Janet Blair) but an often hackneyed script...
Juniors Dom Repetto, a sidearm righthander with a good fast ball, southpaw Joel Bernstein, and Bob McGinnis, along with sophomores Dave Brigham and Don Hoffman also figure high in Shepard's mound plans...
...tendency to spend more time on alumni than on present students was aggravated by repeated talks from Leonard Bernstein and Dr. W. Barry Wood, now vice-president of Johns Hopkins. Bernstein, a polished television performer, recalled his college days and the opportunities they afforded him to have his music performed...
...connection with Israel seemed rather tenuous, except for a few Jewish turns of melody, particularly in the exciting first movement. The second movement fell into a cocktail-lounge style, with slithering parallel chords in the left hand repeated ad nauseam. The finale was almost wholly a piece of Leonard Bernstein jazz, and relied too much on sequences. Ziskin needs above all to develop self-critical taste...
Last January, with some manuscript advice from Newsman Barker, Morey Bernstein, 36, a Pueblo businessman who sells farm and mining equipment, told the story again in his book (TIME, Feb. 20). Bernstein, an amateur hypnotist, had put Housewife Tighe, who uses the name Ruth Simmons to avoid publicity, into a trance in which she conjured up an earlier incarnation as Bridey, a redheaded lass born in Cork. What made the story chillingly persuasive was the mass of circumstantial detail about people, places and customs that Mrs. Tighe recounted in a brogue and in words that seemed utterly foreign...