Word: isaac
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PASSIONS by ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER 312 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...Chekhov's story Rothschild's Fiddle, a Russian wills his violin to a Jew. Afterward, writes Chekhov, Rothschild plays a melody "so passionately sad and full of grief that the listeners weep ... and force him to play it as many as ten times." In Passions, Isaac Bashevis Singer's new collection, all 20 tales recall the earlier story, with its Russian theme transmuted by vibrant Yiddish inflection...
...slow day Western history might be reduced to a tale of two apples. The first comes wrapped in art and myth: Eve took the bite and mankind got its eviction notice from Paradise. The second is baked in its own apocryphal jacket: Isaac Newton got his deep insight into gravity when struck by a falling fruit. Result: a new brand of physics that relocated us even farther from the godhead-and a reverse anthropomorphism that saw the human body as a machine. Today Adam Smith implies the West has an urge to work its way back, past technology, past...
...resent the elitism of his Harvard background. "They never hold it against a Harvard guy," he says. "I always feel they wish they could have had the experience I had. There's a lot of intelligence on the Bengals." The teasing he gets because of Harvard is good natured: Isaac Curtis calls him "The Wizard...
...start of a three-week Haydnfest at the Kennedy Center, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress and countless homes to which radio station WGMS began beaming daily Haydn programs. The performers include the city's own National Symphony, soloists like Violinist Isaac Stern and Cellist Janos Starker, orchestras and choruses from Yale, Shenandoah Conservatory and Kent State University...