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9 Apr 2012, 8:57 am
(David Bernstein) The New York Times has up a post by Philip Kitcher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, on Social Darwinism. [read post]
30 Jun 2018, 5:42 am
More than four decades later, Leonard Bernstein conducted several performances to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall, substituting the word 'freedom' for 'joy' in Friedrich Schiller’s 1785 poem to which Beethoven’s movement was set. [read post]
13 Dec 2014, 4:33 am
.'"AND: From a review in yesterday's NYT of a production of "Assassins" in London:Some are fired by political ideals, like the magnetic John Wilkes Booth... the naïve anarchist Leon Czolgosz... the Depression-era firebrand Giuseppe Zangara... and the failed Communist Lee Harvey Oswald... taunted into taking his fatal shots by the commanding ghost of Booth.Others are narcotized by the cult of celebrity: the sniveling John Hinckley... clutching his tattered photo of Jodie… [read post]
5 Dec 2023, 8:03 pm
Program co-chairs Scott Alter (Michael Best) and David Bernstein (Debevoise) have once again assembled an impressive roster of speakers including prominent attorneys, government officials, judges, and in-house counsel. [read post]
26 Mar 2011, 9:23 am
You can also watch videos of him conducting other symphonic works at YouTube.]Shades of Leonard Bernstein: truly an inspiration for us all -- thank you, Jonathan! [read post]
29 Nov 2023, 11:19 am
"Writes Ann Hornaday in "Bravo, Bradley Cooper: ‘Maestro’ is a grand, messy symphony of moments/The director and star of the Leonard Bernstein biopic tells the conductor’s story, and that of his wife (Carey Mulligan), with electric, sometimes scattershot verve" (WaPo).Okay. [read post]
11 Oct 2023, 7:27 am
Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Supreme Court weighs South Carolina racial gerrymandering dispute (Lawrence Hurley, NBC News) US Supreme Court justices skeptical of high bar for whistleblower lawsuits (Daniel Wiessner, Reuters) How new regulations impact abortion and birth control access in Texas (María Méndez, The Texas Tribune) We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority (Andy Kroll, Andrea… [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 3:22 pm
As a classical composer and performer, his integration of jazz (including being one of the first noted as an improvising jazz French hornist[1]), ethnic and folk music has led him to work with the likes of Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Willie Nelson, Langston Hughes, Charles Mingus, Leonard Bernstein, Sir James Galway, Tito Puente, Mary Lou Williams, Joseph Papp, Arthur Miller, Miles Davis, Arturo Sandoval, Stan Getz, Pete Seeger, Elia Kazan,… [read post]
13 Mar 2011, 7:14 pm
Cox, who was at the center of black radical politics as a member of the Black Panther Party high command and who earned a moment of celebrity in 1970 when he spoke at the Leonard Bernstein fund-raising party in Manhattan made notorious by the writer Tom Wolfe, died on Feb. 19 at his home in Camps-sur-l’Agly, France. [read post]
20 Oct 2010, 1:14 pm
Catherine Rampell:In honor of the holiday, here are a few good reads on fun with numbers, probabilities and uncertainty: “The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives,” by Leonard Mlodinow “Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets,” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb “How to Lie with Statistics,” by Darrell Huff “Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk,” by Peter L. [read post]
18 Oct 2016, 5:35 pm
Truman), six foreign heads of state (Menachem Begin, Fidel Castro, Charles de Gaulle, Nikita Khrushchev, Anwar Sadat, and Margaret Thatcher), and such renowned cultural and political icons as Muhammad Ali, James Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein, Audrey Hepburn, Alfred Hitchcock, Bob Hope, Edward R. [read post]
26 Jun 2012, 6:13 pm
Carl Bernstein, one-half of the reporting team that inspired a generation of j-school recruits, didn’t finish college. [read post]
18 Feb 2008, 10:05 pm
Theater critic Terry Teachout made an interesting point the other day in this W$J op-ed about one of the hazards of great achievement relatively early in one's career: Leonard Bernstein set Broadway on fire in 1957 with "West Side Story," a jazzed-up version of "Romeo and Juliet" in which the Capulets and Montagues were turned into Puerto Rican Sharks and American Jets. [read post]
7 May 2018, 7:09 am
Bernstein Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution by Barry Cushman Constitutional Theory: Constitutional Interpretation: Textual Meaning, Original Intent, and Judicial Review by Keith E. [read post]
27 Jun 2018, 9:03 am
These include ABBA, Adele, Jhené Aiko, Alabama Shakes, Alex Da Kid, Axwell & Ingrosso, J Balvin, Bastille, Beach Boys, Beastie Boys, Bee Gees, Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Jeff Bhasker, Justin Bieber, Benny Blanco, Chris Brown, Kane Brown, Mariah Carey, Michael Chabon, Desmond Child, The Clash, Coldplay, J. [read post]
21 Nov 2015, 10:31 am
Jones was Leonard Bernstein, but "That Party at Lenny’s" that Tom Wolfe described in "Radical Chic" took place in 1966. [read post]
27 Jun 2007, 3:33 pm
Fifty years ago, I suspect that along with Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, and Sandy Koufax, most Americans could have named, at the very least, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Arthur Miller, Thornton Wilder, Georgia O'Keeffe, Leonard Bernstein, Leontyne Price, and Frank Lloyd Wright. [read post]
7 Mar 2010, 4:39 am
She learned her West Side Story part at the piano bench with Leonard Bernstein, roles were written specifically for her by Kander and Ebb and Cy Coleman and other theater greats, and her presentation last night was a glorious trip down memory lane for any enthusiastic admirer of the Broadway musical theater. [read post]
16 Jul 2012, 1:38 pm
Lowell, and our Financial Services Regulatory Chair, Leonard A. [read post]
15 Jan 2009, 4:45 pm
Leonard, Julia D. [read post]
