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...never been able to live in a cocoon," he says. "I have a long buttinsky nose." In Yiddish-one of the six languages he either speaks or understands -the expression is a kochleffl (a stirrer-up of the pot). Even his relaxations are strenuous. Says Leonard Bernstein: "You should play tennis with him some time. My God, the force, the velocity of those balls! He's a bull out there...
...China's staid official party newspaper, but recently the People's Daily and other Chinese papers have been publishing accounts of criminal wrongdoing almost daily. Even more unusual, the individuals being fingered in the press are ranking government and party officials. Reports TIME Peking Bureau Chief Richard Bernstein: "The fact that they are now being publicly denounced on the country's front pages indicates that the top leadership in Peking is stepping up its campaign against venal and corrupt practices within its own ranks, a problem that has long been a major source of cynicism and unhappiness...
Richard B. Bernstein, a third-year student who will join a private firm next fall, said, "A lot of people here need the money, and the big firms can supply it," adding that the Law School "has traditionally been a factory" for private firms...
...green hills and rich farm land, with a long, spectacular coastline, Fujian province faces Taiwan, 90 miles away across the Taiwan Strait. Closed to most non-Chinese for more than three decades, Fujian has been reopened both to foreign visitors and to foreign investment. TIME Peking Bureau Chief Richard Bernstein last week toured the provincial capital of Fuzhou and the port city of Xiamen (Amoy). His report...
...Darn Hot" is the most successful number in the show. The choreography is smooth, the performance fairly polished. The women's trio in "I Can Cook, Too" evoked loud laughter, as did the men's equally amusing rendition of the song in a modern parody of the 1944 Bernstein classic. After Hours could use more of this kind of innovation...