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...London, and while waiting for help, Ma decided to brush up on his Haydn. The dedication is typical for Ma; so is the hectic schedule (125 concerts this year) and the cheerful indifference to adversity. The silky beauty of his playing awes not only critics but other musicians. Isaac Stern, the virtuoso of violin and musical politics, says: "Ma is one of the greatest instrumental talents alive...
...went there fairly directly. She was the second child of four in a Russian Jewish family, landowners who lived near Kiev. Her father, Isaac Berliawsky, took off for the New World in 1903 and fetched up in Rockland, Me., where he began to establish himself in real estate and lumber. Left with her grandparents in Russia, the three-year-old Louise convinced herself that her father had abandoned her, and she refused to utter a single word for six months. But in 1905 passage money came, and the Berliawsky family took ship for America. At a quarantine depot in Liverpool...
...Isaac Bashevis Singer goes further. In his Nobel Prize address he cites ten reasons why he writes for the young...
...millionaire, the soldier, the vagabond and the poet all have other ways of judging their value. Says Science-Fiction Soothsayer Isaac Asimov: "Robots will leave to human beings the tasks that...
Just as there is a romantic tradition that robots are inherently diabolic creatures that will rebel against human control, there is an equally romantic tradition that machines are inherently benign, symbols of progress and perfectability. Isaac Asimov epitomized that view in a famous story titled Robbie, in which a much mistrusted robot baby sitter of that name rescues its ward from a speeding tractor. Asimov then went on to formulate, in Runaround (1942), what he decreed to be, in the world of science fiction at least, the Three Laws of Robotics: "1) A robot may not injure a human being...