The Archives

1962

“Equally at home on Broadway, on television, or conducting the Philharmonic, Bernstein’s extraordinary talents have attracted millions of admirers,” said Newsweek. Leonard Bernstein conducted the first televised concert at New York’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts to mark the official opening of the new venue. Over a long career, he won two Tonys, 16 Grammys and seven Emmys, and the Kennedy Center Honors. This year, his music will find new audiences through a film adaptation of his most famous musical, West Side Story, currently scheduled for release in December.

1977

Newsweek predicted that the “politically explosive” Bakke case “may have more impact on equality...than any judgment since Brown began dismantling school segregation in 1954.” The case ultimately upheld affirmative action as a tool for diversity—which was again upheld in a 2019 case against Harvard University.

1997

Newsweek remembered Mother Teresa as a woman of contradiction: “Her humility was burdened by celebrity. She raised millions for her work [for the poor] but lived simply .... She was a woman of power in a church run by men.” In September 2016, she was officially canonized by the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta.