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...DIED. Hilda Bernstein, 91, white, middle-class illustrator turned antiapartheid activist and founding member of the multiracial Federation of South African Women; in Cape Town, South Africa. Bernstein and her husband Rusty, who was tried for treason alongside friend Nelson Mandela and acquitted, fled police harassment in 1964, settling in Britain. She returned only after Mandela became South Africa's first democratically elected President. "The meaning of life," she said, "is a choice you make about the way you live...
DIED. Hilda Bernstein, 91,white, middle-class illustrator turned antiapartheid activist and founding member of the influential, multiracial Federation of South African Women; in Cape Town, South Africa. Bernstein and her husband Rusty, who was tried for treason alongside friend Nelson Mandela and acquitted, fled in 1964 amid harassment by police, settling in Britain. Only after Mandela had served as the first democratically elected President did the widowed activist return to South Africa. "The meaning of life," she said, "is a choice you make about the way you live...
...supposedly belong to the committee that steers Social Studies—the Michael Sandel’s and company. Actually you probably won’t know they’re on the steering committee or that there is even a steering committee. For all practical purposes, Anya Bernstein (the Dean of Undergraduate Studies) is the face of Social Studies. If you’re lucky, you’ll come across Professors Michael Hiscox, Steven Levitsky, and Peter Gordon, who’ll all single-handedly make Social Studies worth your time and sweat. Did we mention that Social...
...life so rashly. I begot children with a physically and morally inferior person and cannot complain if they turn out accordingly. Only they will accuse me one day when they are old enough; they will be only too right, unfortunately. So send my poor boy wherever you and Bernstein see fit, if you really think something of it. And even if you silently say to yourself that every [effort] is futile, send him anyway, so that my wife and my [Hans] Albert think something is being done against this evil. I am going to try to send 500 marks...
...this Oscar winner introduced the mass audience to the marriage of serious dance (Jerome Robbins') and serious music (Leonard Bernstein's). The way to see it, if not on the big screen, is in this two-disc MGM set that includes reminiscences of those baby Jets and Sharks, now in their...