Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shosha, Isaac Bashevis...
...Isaac Bashevis Singer, the celebrated one-man band of Yiddish literature, has not yet appeared as a guest star on The Muppet Show, and such folderol may, indeed, have no part in his plans. But some of his remarks last week after he accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm suggest that, were he to do so, he and Muppetmaster Jim Henson might have a fruitful conversation as they waited for the cameras to be set up. An excerpt...
...fact, there seems little danger that such revisionists will be taken seriously. If they have any useful function it is to spark Wiesel into passages that recall Isaac Bashevis Singer's definition of Jews as "a people who can't sleep themselves and let nobody else sleep." While Elie Wiesel lives and writes, there will be no rest for the wicked, the uncaring or any one else...
Robert Byrd, Senate majority leader, after playing the violin in Jerusalem: "I am the Isaac Stern of the U.S. Senate...
...Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel-prizewinning author: "The truth is if Tolstoy would live across the street, I wouldn't go to see him. I would rather read what he writes...