Word: isaacs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accordance with Kenyan law, authorities, pending the trial, would give no information about their suspect beyond his name: Nahashon Isaac Njenga Njoroge. That was plenty. Two of his names identified him as a member of the dominant Kikuyu tribe. Mboya's Luo tribal brothers suspected from the first that his killer belonged to the Kikuyu, traditional foes of the less powerful Luo. Thus new tribal disturbances are likely to erupt when Njoroge goes on trial this week. The plot is complicated by the fact that Mboya, though a Luo, was also a national leader of the Kenya African National...
...ISAAC BABEL: YOU MUST KNOW EVERYTHING. Edited by Nathalie Babel. Translated by Max Hayward. 283 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
More words have been published about Isaac Babel than by him. It is a situation that would have greatly amused the Russian-Jewish short-short-story writer whose work exemplifies Pushkin's golden rule that "precision and brevity are the prime qualities of prose." As a writer who could be economical without sacrificing impact, Babel compares favorably with Chekhov. Even Hemingway, one of the most ruthless wringers of prose, conceded that Babel could "clot the curds" better than he could...
...daily in high schools." What bothered the Times was Goddard's idea that rockets could fly through a vacuum. After Apollo 11 's launch last week, the Times recanted. Under the heading A CORRECTION, the paper declared: "Further investigation and experimentation have confirmed the findings of Isaac Newton in the 17th century, and it is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum as well as in an atmosphere. The Times regrets the error." Date of the offending editorial...
...Ellington to write and perform a piece of music, Moon Maiden. The network also 1) lined up Steve Allen to sit down at a piano and discourse on the moon and romance in popular music, 2) called together a panel of scientists and science-fiction writers including Rod Serling, Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl and John Pierce, 3) planned a four-part essay on movie scifi, featuring Flash Gordon and the Clay People, plus clips from Destination Moon and 2001: A Space Odyssey and 4) taped James Dickey reading one of his space poems...