Word: bernsteins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wonderful Town," universally acclaimed as wonderful, has wonderful Rosalind Russell singing Leonard Bernstein's bumpy, original melodies. Edith Adams makes an attractive, on-time sidekick as Eileen...
Bureaus - LONDON: Andre Laguerre, Gene Farmer, A. T. Baker, Honor Balfour George Voigt. PARIS: Eric Gibbs, Fred Klein, Curtis Prendergast, George Abell. BONN: Frank White, Tom Lambert. ROME: Robert Neville, Lester Bernstein, William Rospigliosi, John Luter. MADRID: Piero Saporiti. JOHANNESBURG: Alexander Campbell. BEIRUT: James Bell, David Richardson. NEW DELHI: James Burke, Joe David Brown, Achal Rangaswami. SINGAPORE: John Dowling. HONG KONG: John M. Mecklin. TOKYO: Dwight Martin, James L. Greenfield. MEXICO CITY: Robert Lubar, Rafael Delgado Lozano. PANAMA: Philip Payne. Rio DE JANEIRO: Cranston Jones. BUENOS AIRES: Ramelle MaCoy...
...Fixing Kilt. Bernstein's most forceful argument for sprightliness is Winners & Sinners itself. When a Times headline said COAST OIL DIGGING URGED TO CUT DEBT, he replied: "Dig that crazy word . . . Oil wells are usually drilled rather than dug." Grammatical errors are listed under the head, "English the King wouldn't like" ("He had been ill for several months and had underwent a gall bladder operation six weeks ago," or "Then, after Jim Hearn had left a 2-1 victory in the nightcap slip away . . ."). A lively headline-MOCKTAIL TIXING KILT, COCKTAIL MIXING TILT...
...wage or price increase ("A hike is a tramp and a tramp is a bum and bum is the word for hike"). They are also warned against words that may trip up printers, e.g., towhead. Thus, one story in the Times said: "To bright, two-headed youngsters . . ." Wrote Bernstein: "Use 'blond,' 'flaxen-haired'-anything...
Plugging for less stuffy language, Bernstein noted "microcosm, merchandising, macrocosm and meteorology all in one tasteless sentence," and suggested Times-men write with "prep school kids in mind constantly. You'll need them to pay your salary by and by." After discovering "Thanksgiving has come and gone and Christmas is upon us and there doesn't seem to have been a single turkey dinner served up in the news columns 'with all the fixin's,'" Bernstein joyfully wrote: "Innkeeper, wine all around!" He also pounces on sloppy checking of names. When a story from Germany...