Ричард Бернщайн умира на 80; Times Correspondent, Critic and Author
Richard Bernstein, a former correspondent and critic for The New York Times whose deep knowledge of Asia and Europe illuminated reporting from Tiananmen Square to the Bastille, and who wrote things as he saw them in 10 books driven by unflinching intellectual curiosity, died on Monday in Manhattan. Той беше 80.
Смъртта му в болница е породена от рак на панкреаса, диагностициран преди по-малко от осем седмици, сподели синът му Елиас Бернщайн. Mr. Bernstein lived in Brooklyn.
Over more than two decades at The Times, Mr. Bernstein brought deep historical knowledge, a gracious writing style and a stubborn contrarian streak to subjects as various as the meaning of the French Revolution, the nature of Chinese authoritarianism, the “multitudinous strands ” in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing тестване и смисъла на скобите в политиката на университетския език.
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