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...Isaac and Ishmael never really understood each other, but both were sons of Abraham?and both at least forgot their differences long enough to bury their father. Their descendants in Israel and the Arab world today, even if they never embrace as brothers, need to come to terms with each other not only for the sake of world order but for selfish reasons. The Arabs need the help?and the lessons?that Israel is willing to give. The Israelis need peace. "We must try and try and try again to find a modus vivendi with our neighbors," says Levi Eshkol...
...Ishmael is traditionally considered the ancestor of the Arabs, Isaac of the Jews...
...short (5 ft. 4 in.), white-haired professor perched on a small stool, his feet hooked in the lower rung, his hands extracting scrawled lecture notes from a manila envelope. Isidor Isaac Rabi (rhymes with Bobby) gazed stolidly up at his 30 selected students in Columbia University's tiered, 286-seat Pupin physics lecture hall. His eyes suddenly wrinkled with laughter, self-inspired by a quick quip; then his voice turned passionate as he summed up his lifetime concern that science "should be the foundation for the community...
Zuckerman, a friendly, flop-haired bear of a boy ("Everybody calls me Pinky"), started studying at seven with his violinist father. In 1961, Isaac Stern and Pablo Casals heard him play at the Tel Aviv Conservatory and immediately cleared the way for him to go to New York. In the finals, he says, "I lost my cool. My fingers got all tangled up. It taught me how much I could produce under tension, but I sure hope it never happens again." At a victory celebration, he broke down and cried...
Blake peels the petals off this flowery picture with loving precision. Disraeli was born in 1804, in no sense underprivileged. His father Isaac was a well-known, successful anthologist with a pleasant country house and an entree into at least the second rank of English society. Dizzy could have gone to the Establishment schools if he had wanted to-both his younger brothers attended Winchester-but he skipped school to get on with the great game of life, for already ambition was burning a hole in his dandy's pockets...