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Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer entertained an audience of more than 600 in Sanders Theater last night by reading two of his short stories on life in a Warsaw ghetto...
...home, not even for Christmas parties, except occasionally by local police officers. "People are friendly on the surface, but we're somewhere below the dogcatcher on the social scale, and there's no dogcatcher in Meeker," says Madison. Nancy is concerned that their two-year-old son Isaac will be shunned in school when he is older...
Criticisms and arguments on American manners are among the nation's oldest traditions. As early as 1795, a would-be colonist named Isaac Weld went to live in the New World and then returned to England complaining of Americans that "civility cannot be purchased from them on any terms; they seem to think that it is incompatible with freedom." By the time Frances Trollope came to write The Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), she was scandalized by, among other things, "the frightful manner of feeding with their knives, till the whole blade seemed to enter the mouth...
STORIES FOR CHILDREN by Isaac Bashevis Singer Farrar, Straus & Giroux 338 pages...
...Aesop were alive today," maintains Isaac Bashevis Singer, "he might have written a fable about a skunk who was psychoanalyzed to lose his stench, or about a hare who preached the dictatorship of hares . .. When art begins to ape science it becomes exactly that-an ape. It appears just as ridiculous when it tries with its limited powers to retard or push forward the wheels of history...