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  Bernard Levin | Obituaries | Guardian Unlimited
Bernard Levin, who has died aged 75, after many years of Alzheimer's disease, was one of the most famous as well as one of the most controversial British journalists and broadcasters of the second half of the last century.
Bernard arrived at their offices and explained that he was applying for a job.
Inglis invited Bernard to be his deputy, together gradually building up a distinguished band of contributors, including Karl Miller as literary editor, Brien as theatre critic and arts editor, and Cyril Ray, the wine expert.
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 AlterNet: Bernard Levin Remembered
Levin was a celebrated columnist for the London Times, an intellectual with an encyclopedic knowledge of music.
Bernard's substitute for the family he never had were his friends.
That was when she told me that Bernard's condition had so deteriorated that she had to arrange for him to be moved to a home.
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 Book Review: Conducted tour by Bernard Levin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
As a writer and broadcaster with a special interest in music, Bernard Levin's dream did come true in 1908 when he was asked by the BBC to present a series of talks on European Music Festivals.
Levin was able to hear the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Bruno Walter with Elizabeth Schumann and Kathleen Ferrier.
Levin's second festival was Salzburg the following year and he was not able to divest himself of the habit thereafter.
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 Bernard Levin, gifted, influential, infuriating, succumbs to Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
BERNARD LEVIN, one of the best-known and most provocative journalists of his day, has died at the age of 75.
Levin was never afraid to deflate pomposity and champion the underdog, although he was also lampooned for his verbose writing style.
Levin was born in August 1928 and raised by his grandparents after his father, a north London tailor, left his mother when he was three years old.
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 Bernard Levin | Obituaries | News | Telegraph
Henry Bernard Levin was born August 19 1928 near St Pancras station; he was the son of a Jewish tailor, and a descendant of the emigration from Tsarist Russia.
Among Levin's books were The Pendulum Years (1971), about the 1960s, A World Elsewhere (1994), about utopian or imaginary ideal societies, and Enthusiasms, a collection of essays on subjects from Vermeer to walking sticks, and cats to opera.
Levin's companion of later years, who nursed him during his last illness, was the journalist Liz Anderson.
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 On Bernard Levin | clivejames.com
Levin’s habit of staying with a story too long comes in handy when the story is about what the Gas Board is doing to some poor old darling’s kitchen.
Levin has been personally active in the free-lance branch of the journalists’ union, the NUJ, where by his energies he has done a lot to frustrate the plans of those giftless radicals who wait around at meetings until there is no one left to interfere with a unanimous vote.
Levin is adept at collating such material and letting it speak for itself to a wider world.
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 Acid-tongued Bernard Levin, master of mockery, dies at 75 - World - www.smh.com.au
London: Bernard Levin, the political commentator and broadcaster who was a leading figure in the wave of Britain's anti-establishment satire of the 1960s, has died at the age of 75.
Levin, the son of a north London tailor, lived in a three-roomed flat with an array of stuffed cats.
Lord Gilmour, the editor of The Spectator in the 1950s, when Levin came to prominence writing a witty and disdainful political column under the byline Taper, said he was "the first and probably the best" of the modern parliamentary sketch writers.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/08/10/1092102456031.html?from=moreStories   (542 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | Broadcaster Levin dies at age 75
Levin was famous for his Times column between 1971 and 1997, and also wrote for the Spectator, Daily Mail and the Daily Express.
Levin was born Herbert Bernard Levin in August 1928, the son of a north London tailor.
The quality of Levin's matchless prose, his limpid and accurate ability to tell a story, his intellect and his moral fervour are perhaps best exemplified by his fine article in the International Herald Tribune of 8 August 1967 about the Aberfan disaster and its outcomes.
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 Scotsman.com News - Obituaries - Bernard Levin
Levin occupied a desk in the editor’s outer office and the pair were in constant touch throughout the day.
Levin was the subject of gossip column speculation in the early Seventies when he began a five-year relationship with author Arianna Stassinopoulous, a former president of the Cambridge Union and now, as Arianna Huffington, a US Republican politician.
Levin was teased by friends that his infatuation with her led him to dabble in a cult movement called Insight, founded by John Roger, a Californian.
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 Times obituary: Bernard Levin-News-UK-TimesOnline
Bernard Levin, CBE, journalist, was born on August 19, 1928.
But this was probably only half the truth, for Levin had long since abandoned the firebrand socialism of his youth, and in due course he was thought by many to be the grain of the paper.
Levin was "savage, clever, cunning, witty and brilliant" according to the front-page announcement of his arrival — strong words in those days.
www.timesonline.co.uk /tol/news/uk/article467546.ece   (923 words)

  
 Bernard Levin, latterday Voltaire, dies at 75 | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
Bernard Levin, one of the past century's most devastating journalistic scourges of establishments on the right or left, has died at the age of 75, it was announced yesterday.
One of Levin's friends, the journalist Simon Jenkins, called him "a master of prose" and said his writing had a touch of Voltaire.
Levin was brought up by his grandparents and mother after his father left home, and graduated in government from the London School of Economics.
www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,1279759,00.html   (533 words)

  
 One who got it right. (Sovietologist Bernard Levin)(predicting the collapse of communism in the former USSR) - HighBeam ...
Sovietologist Bernard Levin was able to predict the eventual collapse of communism in the former USSR.
Levin had predicted correctly that factors such as political-economic reform and the upsurge of nationalist sentiments among the different ethnic groups within the USSR would eventually cause its demise.
WHY DO I believe that Brezhnev and his colleagues have seen the writing on the wall, and know that the message it conveys is exactly the same, word for word, as the original slogan that gave us the metaphor?
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 Bernard Levin, doyen of columnists, dies at 75-News-UK-TimesOnline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Levin’s writing was an adornment of The Times from the moment he joined it in 1971 until his last piece in 1998.
Levin was born of Lithuanian parents and went to Christ’s Hospital and the London School of Economics.
Levin’s forte was rarely politics, to the delight of most of his readers.
www.timesonline.co.uk /tol/news/uk/article467795.ece   (965 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Broadcaster Levin dies at age 75
During the 1980s, Levin coined the widely-used phrase "the Nanny State" to express his increasing frustration at what he felt was the erosion of our human rights disguised as benevolent government.
Finally he succeeded, drawing from Levin a moving anecdote in which he described a conversation with Field Marshall Montgomery about the responsibility and morality of committing troops to battle.
Levin may have claimed he could not teach, but I learnt from him how to exercise patience and mercy.
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 Division of Cancer Prevention: Bernard Levin, M.D. - M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Bernard Levin, M.D., is responsible to Margaret L. Kripke, Ph.D, executive vice president and chief academic officer and to M. Anderson president John Mendelsohn, M.D., for the oversight and budgeting of all departments within the division.
In addition to serving as vice president, Levin is a tenured professor of gastrointestinal medicine and nutrition, his joint appointment.
Levin serves the department chairs, faculty and staff in the division in a variety of ways.
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 Family History - Le Vin Winery - Southern Mendocino County California
Bernard was a friend of Stephen Zellerbach whom he knew from the Actor’s Workshop at the Marines Memorial Theater in San Francisco and from the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House where Bernard worked.
Bernard and his son Eric Levin began making award winning wines at Zellerbach Winery in 1983.
In 1993 the Levin’s and the Harman/Clokey’s (Erics wife’s family), bought the 164 acre ranch in the scenic Yorkville Highlands Appellation of Mendocino County, that is today Le Vin Vineyards and Winery.
www.levinvineyards.com /history.htm   (553 words)

  
 BRITISH WIT BERNARD LEVIN DIES at 75   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Bernard Levin, one of British journalism's most prolific, famous and outspoken voices, has died at the age of 75.
Levin became famous for his long, sentences, full of clauses, subclauses, parentheses, semi-colons and diversions.
Levin snapped back: "Jesus Christ did not have to hire the Café Royal." Levin never married or had children, but is survived by his partner Liz Anderson, who tended him during a long decline from Alzheimer's disease.
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 In Memorian. Bernard Levin, CBE
Essayist, drama critic and traveller, Bernard Levin was born 19 August, 1928.
Levin's pen was mightier than any sword and he wielded it like a Titan.
There are many of us of his generation who read his prose with awe and sought to emulate his mastery of the English language.
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 Brian's Education Blog • Bernard Levin on musical education   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It's about Levin's travels to and attendance at a succession of music festivals during the summer months of 1980.
I mention this to show what a long way we have come in a fairly short time; my mother certainly must have found it very difficult to pay for our music lessons, but it would never have occurred to her to ask her neighbours to foot the bill.
This is in connection with a music teacher who was hired by Levin's family to teach him, when he was aged 7, to play the violin.
www.brianmicklethwait.com /education/archives/000744.htm   (392 words)

  
 MI5 Persecution: Bernard Levin expresses his views - Wireless and Wifi Forums
Discuss MI5 Persecution: Bernard Levin expresses his views, on Wireless Forums.
The article of which part is reproduced below was penned by Bernard Levin
At the beginning of the piece Levin reveals a fear of being attacked by the
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 Bernard Levin
It has been interesting to learn much more than I knew before about Levin, for instance about his influence at The Times, according to one of his editors, William Rees-Mogg.
A quarter of a century later I can still feel how tough and painful that decision was.
I didn't know that Levin used the Churchill term for depression - Black Dog - and shared his love for cats.
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 Amazon.com: The American Cancer Society : Colorectal Cancer: Books: Bernard Md Levin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Levin then describes screening, early detection techniques, and diagnosis; information on surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation treatments follows.
Levin also discusses ``Alternative and Complementary Therapies,'' offering sound guidelines for evaluating these and incorporating them into a standard treatment plan.
Colorectal Cancer: A Thorough and Compassionate Resource For Patients and Their FAmilies by Bernard Levin M.D. This book covers the required topics, a patient and their relatives should learn about the disease.
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 MI5 Persecution: Bernard Levin expresses his views
11-28-06 06:18 PM The article of which part is reproduced below was penned by Bernard Levin for the Features section of the Times on 21 September 1991.
To my mind, it described the situation at the time and in particular a recent meeting with a friend, during which I for the first time admitted to someone other than my GP that I had been subjected to a conspiracy of harassment over the previous year and a half.
It seemed to me, reading the article by Levin in Saturday’s paper, that he was describing in some detail his "artist’s impression" of that meeting.
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 Bernard Levin on 'Parsifal'
or many years, Bernard Levin was a frequent contributor to the London Times.
His eclectic articles addressing cultural and political issues, usually with a dry and very English wit, were often provocative and always entertaining.
Moreover, Wagner demands an approach and a technique different not only from the theatre but from other composers; a long course of immersion in his work and thought and assiduous attendance backstage throughout the production of more than one of his operas is essential to success (which is not, even then, by any means assured).
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 One who got it right - Sovietologist Bernard Levin - predicting the collapse of communism in the former USSR National ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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One who got it right - Sovietologist Bernard Levin - predicting the collapse of communism in the former USSR
National Interest, The, Spring, 1993 by Bernard Levin
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