LEONARD BERNSTEIN
August 25, 1918 - October 14, 1990
LEONARD BERNSTEIN AT A PRESS CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON,
D.C.
The centrality of Bernstein: see, for example, Elysa Gardner, USA Today: "The tale of a doomed romance between the sister of a Puerto Rican gang leader and the co-founder of a posse of all-American hoodlums was pretty hot stuff when West Side Story opened on Broadway in 1957. But the key to its visceral power has always been Leonard Bernstein's score, a spine-tingling olio of jazz, Latin and classical textures and rapturous melodies that reveal as much about Tony and Maria's feelings as the wonder-struck lyrics provided by a very young Stephen Sondheim."
RECOMMENDED READING: The memoir by Burton
Bernstein, New Yorker writer (and brother), partly
loyally reticent,
but profoundly revelatory of
FAMILY MATTERS (New York: Simon & Schuster © 1982).
GWENDOLYN
STEWART is both a photojournalist and a political scientist
specializing in
political leadership in Russia, China, and the
U.S.
A former Bunting/Radcliffe Fellow, she
is an Associate (and former
Post-Doctoral Fellow) of the Davis Center for Russian and Central
Eurasian Studies at Harvard, as well as an Associate in Research
of the Harvard Fairbank
Center for Chinese Studies. For the
Fairbank Center she co-founded and co-chairs the China
Current Events Workshop, a forum for examining pressing issues in Greater
China. Her Harvard
Ph.D. dissertation (Sic Transit)
dealt with the role of the leaders of the republics, especially
Boris
Yeltsin, in the breakup of the Soviet Union. She is currently writing RUSSIA REDUX,
the story of
Russia under Yeltsin and Putin, part political analysis, part
travel-memoir.
Imagine wandering over
the largest country on earth, not in the train of a railroad, but
in the train of one of the most powerful and contradictory men on earth.
Or all by yourself.
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VLADIMIR PUTIN RONALD REAGAN THE RUSSIA HAND SAKHALIN FREDERICK SALVUCCI
ANNE SEXTON JOHN UPDIKE DAN WAKEFIELD BORIS YELTSIN YELTSIN'S MIDNIGHT DIARIES
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