Word: bernsteins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idealized symphonic conductor has Leonard Bernstein's flair, Herbert von Karajan's grace and Zubin Mehta's youth. But when the directors of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra cast around for a conductor to save their troubled orchestra in 1968, they threw out all the stereotypes and selected a man who looked, according to one Chicago musician, like a "tennis player or shortstop or golfer" on the podium. He was also bald and aging. Looks aside, Sir Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony were made for each other Together they are producing some of the world...
...think it's extraordinary," Leonard Bernstein 39 was overheard remarking at intermission...
...Third World Coalition, which consists of Latins, Asians and Afro-Americans, met with Bernstein several times before the building takeover, but he would not discuss any of their demands concerning financial aid and admission policies for minority students, Third World spokesmen said yesterday...
...Bernstein told us that the university couldn't afford to offer more aid to minority students, and that the 1971-72 admission policy was a mistake. He said that they couldn't afford to have so many minority students--either academically or financially," Vega said yesterday...
...Bernstein was unavailable for comment yesterday, but he told reporters at a press conference last week that the cut back was due to the "financial condition of Brandeis" and "cannot be interpreted as a lessening of the university's commitment to promote the matriculation of minority students...