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...Isaac Stern belongs to a breed of violin virtuosos who blend the elegant techniques of past masters with a warm understanding that elevates virtuosity into art. But Stern's violin (a Guarnerius) still belongs to the breed that Paganini played-and remains a remarkably recalcitrant instrument.* Musicians avoid it so studiously that even major orchestras find it difficult to hire string-section replacements. But Stern and four other greatly gifted players have lifted the solo violin to an eminence any age could envy. Standing with Stern as the world's finest: Zino Francescatti, David Oistrakh, Nathan Milstein, Jascha...
...accuracy that so astounded Arturo Toscanini when he first heard Heifetz that he reported, "I nearly lost my mind." Heifetz can reduce an audience to tears, and he does so with a surprising economy of effects. He knows the kind of communication be tween stage and audience that Isaac Stern once described: "Standing on the stage alone with only a piece of wood with some strings and horsehair between you and the audience, you have to have the belief that 'I have something to give you.' " The matchless possessor of that belief has been enjoying a semi-vacation...
...hero of a series of New Yorker stories by Leo Rosten, was a bemused Jewish immigrant who thought the discoverer of the laws of gravity was Isaac Newman...
...answer to the complaint made against box lunches, Mrs. Bunting gave the student representatives, Merry A. Isaac's '63 and Sarah C. Dublin '63, permission to contact the College dietitian. The girls will request a box lunch plan similar to that at Harvard, whereby students may choose among several possible sandwiches. At present, one lunch is given to everyone each...
Moralizer to Observer. Born in London at a time when Jews were forbidden to serve in Parliament, the Chronicle was founded by a onetime sailor in Nelson's fleet, Isaac Vallentine, who filled the four-page, twopenny Chronicle mostly with "religious and moral instruction" for the 30,000 Jews then living in Britain. By the end of its first year, it was reporting, with undisguised satisfaction, the appointment of a British Jew to public office (high sheriff of Devon...