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Scattered through these pages are gleanings from many a bottom drawer: an early nature essay by Proust, a radio play by Brendan Behan (both in Evergreen), in which he continues to re-Joyce, a shrewdly funny story by Israel's Isaac Babel (Noble Savage...
...SPINOZA OF MARKET STREET, by Isaac Bashevis Singer (214 pp.; Farrar, Straus & Cudahy; $3.95). In these tales about Poland's Jewish ghettos before World War II, Isaac Singer creates a world so fresh, so full of the beat and cries of astonishing life that he can fairly be called one of the few originals now writing. It is a world in which God and the devil are constantly in contention, in which imps, cabalistic mysteries and ancient Talmudic heresies are as much a part of the passing show as a quarrel in the market place. The best of these...
...technology the liberator of our resources rather than a ravenous consumer. We must recognize the power and value of technical simplicity as distinguished from the complexity that we too often regard as sophistication. We have tended to ignore something that the best Paris dress designers-and Sir Isaac Newton-never forgot: the ultimate of sophistication is simplicity itself...
...processional based on Heinrich Isaac's La Mi La Sol exhibited the lavish potentialities of cornetto, sackbut and shawm. The intricate syncopation of this piece is akin to the spirit of many of Gabrielli's horn canzone...
...Introit, Greenberg unfolded all his resources. Directing in a smooth, flowing manner, he did meticulous justice to Isaac's complexity. The choirboys never failed to add a lustrous openness to the awesome fourths that characterize this musical idiom...