Word: bernsteins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tanglewood, Lenox, Mass.: Charles Munch, conductor of festival concerts in place of the late Director Serge Koussevitzky (TIME, June 18); Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland teaching conducting and composing; instrumental, ensemble and vocal instruction...
They traced Dr. Thompson's address through ex-Patient Abell Bernstein, a Colorado manufacturer whose recovery had been reported in the story. Before the ambulance took the priest to the New York train in March, the couple sent many letters to friends, asked for "fervent prayers." Her husband's case was so critical that Mrs. Jones feared that Dr. Thompson would refuse to operate-because he would not want to spoil his good record. "But life is more important to Dr. Thompson than statistics," she says. After 19 days of observation, Father Jones underwent the ticklish operation. Four...
This case is typical of what happened to many other coronary sufferers who read the same story. Ex-Patient Bernstein got so many requests for information that he had to draft a form letter in reply, reporting Dr. Thompson's procedure and address. Letters both urgent and hopeful began to arrive at Dr. Thompson's from 23 states and six foreign countries...
...question of Jesus, Bernstein finds that a new attitude has been growing among Jews during the past generation, as "the religious factors in anti-Semitism have become less prominent." There seems to be a trend, he says, toward bringing Jesus back into "the mainstream of Jewish history. A Jewish basis has been found for most of his teachings. His stature is that of the Hebrew prophet, fearless fighter for righteousness. Like all religious geniuses, he was unique. As with Isaiah and Amos before him, he did not merely echo his people's convictions...
...Rabbi Bernstein denies that the new attention Jews have come to pay to the figure of Jesus can ever lead to accepting him as the Messiah. The very idea of Messiahship, he says, is undergoing a change. Though the Orthodox still believe in a personal Messiah and pray for his coming each day, "a large segment of the liberal Jewish community has discarded the notion of a single messianic personality who is to save mankind ... In its place they affirm their faith in a messianic era which is to be achieved by the cooperative efforts of good...