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diff --git a/Porting/epigraphs.pod b/Porting/epigraphs.pod index db8ab16df9..830a642d15 100644 --- a/Porting/epigraphs.pod +++ b/Porting/epigraphs.pod @@ -110,6 +110,27 @@ L<Announced on 2018-06-26 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.port Courage is the only antidote for danger. +=head2 v5.28.1 - Humphrey Burton, "Leonard Bernstein" + +L<Announced on 2018-11-29 by Steve Hay|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252975.html> + +On August 25, 1983, Leonard Bernstein celebrated his sixty-fifth +birthday in his birthplace, Lawrence, Massachusetts. He had actually +lived in the town for only a few weeks as a newborn baby, and had last +visited it forty-nine years previously, in 1934, to get the name on his +birth certificate altered from Louis to Leonard. But the citizens of +Lawrence proposed to dedicate an outdoor theater to him in their +heritage park and to provide not one but two local orchestras--the +Merrimack Valley Philharmonic to play excerpts from his own compositions +and the Greater Boston Youth Symphony and Chorus to perform the "Ode to +Joy" and accompany Bernstein himself reading (for the only time in his +life) the text of A Lincoln Portrait. So Bernstein turned down birthday +invitations from Tanglewood and Central Park, New York, and the +Hollywood Bowl and drove through the cheering if slightly bewildered +crowds lining the streets of Lawrence in an open-topped 1928 Ford +roadster, looking as homespun as James Stewart in Frank Capra's classic, +It's a Wonderful Life. + =head2 v5.28.0 - Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967 L<Announced on 2018-06-22 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251240> @@ -404,6 +425,23 @@ L<Announced on 2017-05-31 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5. -- Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness +=head2 v5.26.3 - Humphrey Burton, "Leonard Bernstein" + +L<Announced on 2018-11-29 by Steve Hay|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252974.html> + +The origins of the name "Bernstein" are sometimes linked with the German +noun Bernstein, which means "amber"--a translucent yellowish fossilized +resin, used for ornaments and thought to possess magical properties. +Leonard Bernstein would later call himself "Lenny Amber" when he needed +a pseudonym for the popular piano transcriptions he published in his +mid-twenties, and his business affairs would be organized within a +company called Amberson Enterprises. There are several towns and +villages named Bernstein in Germany and Austria (where the pronunciation +is BernSTINE), but Bernstein's parents came from Jewish ghettos in +northwestern Ukraine, where the last syllable is usually pronounced +BernSHTAYN or STEEN. Sam insisted, however, on the mid-European style +employed by the earlier immigrants. + =head2 v5.26.2 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour" L<Announced on 2018-04-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250440.html> |