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...Carlos Ongania that a "revolutionary court" had decreed death for their captive. He was guilty, they claimed, of sending 27 Peronists before firing squads for having attempted a coup against his government in 1956. (In fact, Aramburu was on a back-country trip at the time; his Vice President, Isaac F. Rojas, ordered the executions...
...Isaac Bashevis Singer, author of Satan in Goray, The Magician of Lublin, and several collections of short stories, is the foremost living writer in Yiddish. His recent book, A Day of Pleasure, won the National Book Award in children's literature. "Children still belive in God, the family, angels devils witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff," he said as he accepted the award. The following interview took place about three weeks ago when Singer came to speak at Harvard...
...melting-pot country whose image of the Jew is a hybrid composite of the sex-crazed fantasies of Alexander Portnoy and the excessive mentality of Fiddler on the Roof, Isaac Bashevis Singer is a refreshing breeze of sanity and reality. His stories and novels portary a life which vanished with the thud of German army boots-that of the shtetl, the Eastern European Jewish village. Not surprisingly, many of his simple tales and anecdotes of the old country ring with more authenticity than the slick, cynical products of our modern literati...
...dinner invitations remain the most sought-after in Washington these days). The White House calligraphy staff, responsible for designing and painstakingly inscribing every invitation, have perpetual wrighter's cramp. Those accepting the invitations (and few do not) have witnessed a tumble of talent: Duke Ellington and Andrew Wyeth, Isaac Stern and Leonard Bernstein, Bob Hope and Red Skelton, and the Broadway cast...
...When people ask me what elements are used in my writing, it's like asking a chicken what chemicals it used in laying an egg," Isaac Bashevis Singer, the noted Yiddish author of The Magician of Lublin and A Day of Pleasure, told an audience of 600 in Lowell Lecture Hall last night...