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...other Italian artist of the day had such mastery of gesture. Caravaggio was a minute observer of body language: how people move, slump, sit up, point and shrug; how they writhe in pain; how the dead sprawl. Hence the vividness of Abraham's gesture in The Sacrifice of Isaac, holding his wailing son down on a rock like a man about to gut a fish, even though the landscape behind them is Venetian in its pastoral calm. In The Supper at Emmaus, the characters seem ready to come off the wall, as Christ makes his sacramental gesture over the food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Master of the Gesture | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...LAST WORK by the late English historian E.H. Carr;The Comintern and the Spanish Civil War represents the culmination of a lifetime of brilliant research on Russia and communism Deutscher. Wife of Trotsky biographer Isaac Deutscher, edits and introduces the book, left as an unfinished manuscript by Carr's death, and adds a "personal memoir" of its author, with whom she worked closely...

Author: By D. JOSEPH Menn, | Title: Losing Sight of the Revolution | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

Carrying a 2-0 lead into the final three matches, the top of the Harvard lineup continued the sweep. Dowling came away with a convincing 3-0 victory at number three, while top seeded. Dinncen defeated Mexico's Isaac Kirel...

Author: By Brian Mccarthy, | Title: Racquetmen Take Five-Man Title; Jernigan Claims Amateur Crown | 2/19/1985 | See Source »

...Isaac's new lawyer. Edward Greer, yesterday called District Court Judge Walter J. Skinner '48's ruling "a legal mistake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keeping Track | 1/11/1985 | See Source »

...appeal will decide whether Isaac's former lawyers kept administrative proceedings going while at the same time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keeping Track | 1/11/1985 | See Source »

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