Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MOST OF THE WRITERS interviewed are more than willing to deliver their opinions and observations on politics, the state of the world, life, death, and above all, writing. Rex Stout has no trouble dashing off a new Nero Wolfe every 39 days, and Isaac Asimov writes books the way most people sneeze. But the other authors find writing a painful process, especially as they grow older and fear losing their inspiration and energy. "The metronomic quality of a columnist's life is like Chinese water torture," says an unusually morose Russell Baker. "Wednesday Thursday Sunday, Wednesday Thursday Sunday. That stretches...
...Legend. His full name was Solomon Isaievich Hurok. To his friends he was Sol. To the public, though, it was "S. Hurok Presents," an emblem that invariably appeared atop the newspaper ad, billboard poster or concert program. Beneath it ran names like Artur Rubinstein, Isaac Stern, Margot Fonteyn, the Royal Ballet, the Old Vic and, of course, the Russians he so ably promoted and profited by in the U.S.: Pavlova, Richter, Oistrakh, the Bolshoi Ballet and Opera...
...WHEN ISAAC Bashevis Singer spoke at South House last year, he told about "a young artist who once came to me and told me he was afraid he hadn't suffered enough...
Besides being chairman of the big May Department Stores Co., Stanley J Goodman, 63, is a crisp tennis player, a wine connoisseur and a good enough "living-room" violinist to have played with Isaac Stern and the St. Louis Symphony. To all these talents, Goodman added another last week. Addressing the annual convention of the National Retail Merchants Association, he proved to be a candid critic of something he knows well and loves deeply - American business...
...comet of 1456 and many of the others that influenced ancient history were one and the same: the celestial visitor that became known as Halley's comet. A 17th century protégé of Isaac Newton, Edmund Halley was convinced that comets travel, like planets, in closed orbits around the sun. Using his mentor's formulas, he calculated the paths of comets dating back to 1337 and found that three-those of 1456, 1531 and 1607 -had roughly the same orbit as the comet of 1682 (which he had seen as a young man). Halley concluded that...