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This issue of Mosaic includes no undergraduate fiction or poetry, but does contain an essay, "The Relevance of Jane Austen: Remarks on Jewish Writing in America," by Lewis Kampf, and a memoir by the Yiddish writer, Isaac Bashevis Singer...
Soviet Psychiatrist Isaac Goldberg could well understand his colleagues' doubts, but he insisted that he really did have an epileptic patient who could read ordinary print with her fingertips. To prove it, he had Rosa Kuleshova, 22, admitted to the Sverdlov Clinic for Nervous Disorders. There before a skeptical audience, Dr. Goldberg blindfolded Rosa and had the blindfold checked. Then Rosa opened a book at random, passed the fingertips of her right hand lightly over the page, and fluently read the text aloud. She did the same with a newspaper. Handed a snapshot, Rosa stroked the surface and said...
Festival of Performing Arts. Producers David Susskind and James Fleming put together a syndicated series that brought to television such performing masters as Violinist Isaac Stern, Cellist Pablo Casals, Actor Paul Scofield and his wife, Joy Parker, reading poetry, Margaret Leighton reading Dorothy Parker...
...Isaac himself is a teetotaler and nonsmoker, who proudly insists that his personal expenses are covered by a shilling (14?) a day. He is more generous with others. His Isaac Wolfson Foundation, set up in 1955 with $17 million in G.U.S. stock, has donated more than $12 million to worthy causes; for his charities he was made a baronet early this year. Though most of his gifts go to British hospitals and universities, Sir Isaac also belongs to a remarkable club of 26 Britons, each of whom has contributed at least $1,000,000 to Israel's Weizmann Institute...
Work Begins at Calais. Sir Isaac's son, Leonard, a 35-year-old G.U.S. executive, is being groomed to succeed him, but father shows little sign of slowing down. "The Gov'nor," as employees call him, still arrives at his red-carpeted office every morning at 7:45, works through till 5 or 6 p.m. His principal worry now is that few other British executives are equally energetic and that British entry into the Common Market could be disastrous unless his countrymen learn to work harder. Said Sir Isaac with mocking irony to a recent conclave of London...