Used From 1989 to the end of the Rukeyser era, the Elves Index was also a reading of ten indicators scored in the same manner as the Wall Street Week Index.

The program, created by Anne Truax Darlington and produced by Maryland Public Television ( MPT ), aired from 1970 to 2005 and was officially titled Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser during the 32 years he hosted.

By 2001 viewership was down to 1, 500, 000 households and demographics showed that the average WSW viewer was 65 years old ( about the same age as Rukeyser ).

Cerf attended Townsend Harris High School, the same public school as composer Richard Rodgers, publisher Richard Simon, and playwright Howard Dietz ; and he spent his teenage years at 790 Riverside Drive, an apartment building in Washington Heights that was home to two other friends who became prominent as adults, Howard Dietz and the Hearst newspapers financial editor Merryle Rukeyser.

When Rukeyser started a syndicated television show about the stock market, he invited Westheimer to appear, which led to regular appearances on the PBS show Wall $ treet Week for 29 years from 1971.

Bernstein founded the Muriel Rukeyser Center for the Arts in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, New York a place where Rukeyser said people had “ the opportunity to experience the arts where they live and work .” In this context, Bernstein also aired the Muriel Rukeyser reading series, On the Air, which featured interviews with Rukeyser, Robert Bly, Grace Paley, Denise Levertov, Audre Lorde, Quincy Troupe, and Gregory Orr.

In 1950, Ciardi edited a poetry collection, Mid-Century American Poets, which identified the best poets of the generation that had come into its own in the 1940s: Richard Wilbur, Muriel Rukeyser, John Frederick Nims, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Theodore Roethke, Delmore Schwartz, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Ciardi himself, and several others.

In the space of two evenings, with twelve poets, including William Everson, Muriel Rukeyser, Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Duncan and Jack Spicer, Madeline Gleason read and performed for an audience of young poets and poetry lovers.

Benét published the first volumes of James Agee, Muriel Rukeyser, Jeremy Ingalls, and Margaret Walker.

Some other artists, authors and works published in transition included Samuel Beckett ( Assumption, For Future Reference ), Kay Boyle ( Dedicated to Guy Urquhart ), H. D. ( Gift, Psyche, Dream, No, Socratic ), Max Ernst ( Jeune Filles en des Belles Poses, The Virgin Corrects the Child Jesus before Three Witnesses ), Stuart Gilbert ( The Aeolus Episode in Ulysses, Function of Words, Joyce Thesaurus Minusculus ), Juan Gris ( Still Life ), Ernest Hemingway ( Three Stories, Hills like White Elephants ), Franz Kafka ( The Metamorphosis ), Alfred Kreymborg ( from: Manhattan Anthology ), Pablo Picasso ( Petite Fille Lisant ), Muriel Rukeyser ( Lover as Fox ), Gertrude Stein ( An Elucidation, The Life and Death of Juan Gris, Tender Buttons, Made a Mile Away ), William Carlos Williams ( The Dead Baby, The Somnambulists, A Note on the Recent Work of James Joyce, Winter, Improvisations, A Voyage to Paraguay ).

* Muriel Rukeyser wrote a poetry sequence, " The Book of the Dead ", about this disaster, which can be found in her book, U. S. 1 ( published in 1938 ).

In 1945, " There ain't no such thing as a free lunch " appeared in the Columbia Law Review, and " there is no free lunch " appeared in a 1942 article in the Oelwein Daily Register ( in a quote attributed to economist Harley L. Lutz ) and in a 1947 column by economist Merryle S. Rukeyser.

Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser was announced by Alec Webb.

Louis Rukeyser conducted the proceedings with a wry sense of humor ( including the use of puns ) and a reassuring manner.

In 1980 Rukeyser explained his hosting philosophy to The New York Times as, " I am talking to one person, whom I regard as intelligent, with a good sense of humor, but not all that technically knowledgeable.

Rukeyser was invited to remain with the program in a reduced role as a senior correspondent, but he turned down the offer.

Rather than attempt to replace Rukeyser with a new host, they have taken what they describe as an " ensemble approach ".

The TV program Wall $ treet Week with Louis Rukeyser was produced by Maryland Public Television at its studios in Owings Mills ; many viewers became familiar with the town as the mailing address of the program.

Bernstein also worked closely with the late poet and biographer Muriel Rukeyser.

Rukeyser died in New York on February 12, 1980 from a stroke, with diabetes as a contributing factor.

* Wall $ treet Week with Louis Rukeyser ( 1972 – 2002 ), MPT's signature long running financial information program

** Wall $ treet Week ( with Fortune ) ( 2002 – 2005 ), the moribund program which replaced Louis Rukeyser

Kitty Oppenheimer's aria, " Easter Eve, 1945 ", by Muriel Rukeyser ( from her poem of the same name ) was premiered by Audra McDonald in May, 2004 with the New York Philharmonic and Adams conducting.

This led to a chance meeting at a luncheon with editor Louis Rukeyser, then chief of The Sun's London bureau, which in turn led to Westheimer writing for the paper.

The libretto of Doctor Atomic by Peter Sellars draws on original source material, including personal memoirs, recorded interviews, technical manuals of nuclear physics, declassified government documents, and the poetry of the Bhagavad Gita, John Donne, Charles Baudelaire, and Muriel Rukeyser.

Without Louis Rukeyser as host, this new version suffered from dismal ratings, neither capturing a new more youthful market as PBS had intended, nor retaining the original viewers.

Whenever Rukeyser was on vacation or otherwise absent, one of the show's regular panelists would fill in.

This phenomenon, dubbed " The Rukeyser Effect ", was stated to be a further demonstration of the program's influence.

Despite " ambushing " Rukeyser, the show's trend of losing viewers continued as the show floundered on without Rukeyser's trusted presence and was terminated in early 2005.

Muriel Rukeyser ( December 15, 1913 – February 12, 1980 ) was an American poet and political activist, best known for her poems about equality, feminism, social justice, and Judaism.

Her poem " To be a Jew in the Twentieth Century " ( 1944 ), on the theme of Judaism as a gift, was adopted by the American Reform and Reconstructionist movements for their prayer books, something Rukeyser said " astonished " her, as she had remained distant from Judaism throughout her early life.

Rukeyser was active in progressive politics throughout her life.

It was founded in 1967 by a group of writers and educators including Herbert Kohl, June Jordan, Muriel Rukeyser, Grace Paley, and Anne Sexton, who believed that writers could make a unique contribution to the teaching of writing.

Olds has commented that she is more informed by the work of poets such as Galway Kinnell, Muriel Rukeyser and Gwendolyn Brooks than by confessional poets like Anne Sexton or Sylvia Plath.

* 1913 – Muriel Rukeyser, American poet ( d. 1980 )

* 1933 – Louis Rukeyser, American journalist ( d. 2006 )

* December 15 – Muriel Rukeyser, American poet ( d. 1980 )

Former Stars and Stripes staffers also include 60 Minutes ’ Andy Rooney and Steve Kroft, songwriter and author Shel Silverstein, comic book illustrator Tom Sutton, author Ralph G. Martin, painter and cartoonist Paul Fontaine, author and television news correspondent Tony Zappone, cartoonist Vernon Grant ( A Monster Is Loose in Tokyo ), Hollywood photographer Phil Stern and the late stock market reporter and host of public television's Wall Street Week, Louis Rukeyser.

On October 23, 1987, the first program following Black Monday, the show dropped its regular format for a special program where Rukeyser interviewed three experts on the impact of the stock market crash.

During the 1984 and 1985 pledge-drive seasons, Rukeyser hosted two " Investment Primer " specials, introducing viewers to the stock market and how it worked.

Rukeyser irreverently named the index " The Elves " ( a reference to the Gnomes of Zürich ), and dubbed Nurock the " Chief Elf.

Later, Rukeyser added an Elves Index for the NASDAQ.

The indexes were " retired " by Rukeyser after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

The following evening, Rukeyser opened the telecast by announcing " A funny thing happened to me on the way to the studio this week — I got ambushed.

After the broadcast MPT dismissed Rukeyser and executive producer Rich Dubroff.

Rukeyser died 11 months after the show ended.