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Getting into the future once proved just as difficult. The science-fiction field, formerly a gentlemen's club run by the likes of Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert and Arthur C. Clarke, now has a woman at the top of the charts. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin, 53, won both Hugo and Nebula prizes, sci-fi's Pulitzers. Le Guin also won the National Book Award for her children's novel The Farthest Shore in 1972. Her 22 books, most of which are science fiction, have en livened the hardware-oriented genre with emotional...
Harvard filed for dismissal of the case following a series of interrogatories filed by Isaac's attorney; Theodore Landmark questioning employment and tenure procedure and requesting reasons for the large difference in the numbers of tenured Black and white professors...
...Huyard clan, who, like most of their Amish neighbors, drive horse-and-buggy rigs and wear homemade black garb, has cleaved to its faith and offered the accused killer forgiveness. As he painted a shed on his hilltop property, Isaac Huyard cited the Bible: "Resist not evil, but overcome evil with good." David E. Huyard, 75, Naomi's uncle and the family patriarch, suggested that the murder is symptomatic of a growing rebelliousness among Amish and Mennonite youth, who are taught to live peacefully and according to the Bible. "We're being tested and tried in many different...
...desire that his playing call attention only to the music, never to itself, he was also a direct link to the pianistic tradition of the 19th century; when audiences heard Rubinstein perform, they were listening to a man born six months after Liszt died. No wonder Violinist Isaac Stern last week called Rubinstein "part of the centrality of music in our time...
...Collected Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The Nobel laureate chooses 47 tales of demons, dybbuks and exuberantly flawed men and women, set mainly in his native Poland and his adopted Manhattan...