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...When Isaac Bashevis Singer's Collected Stories appeared in 1982, his legions of faithful readers had cause to celebrate and worry. On the one hand, the volume was an invaluable retrospective of the tales that had helped bring Singer an international audience and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978. On the other, collections imply finality, a summing up of past work because there may be nothing more to add. Might Singer, now 80, have exhausted himself or his imagination? Was this hailing of previous accomplishments also a farewell...
...what she wanted to be--a bitch and a looker. Think of the opportunities!" The voluble, repetitious Bayoux cannot match her lunatic poignancy, but he can be an apt foil and in the end helps to prove that the immigrant novel, from Henry Roth's Call It Sleep to Isaac Bashevis Singer's Lost in America to Lore Segal's Her First American, remains inexhaustible...
...discovered the city's quiet beauty while stationed there, can be found grumbling about air pollution and traffic congestion. Others have noted congressional hesitancy in funding the militarization of space and wonder whether CSOC and the U.S. Space Command are just pie in the sky. Notes Mayor Robert Isaac: "It's hard to see into a crystal ball more than a couple of years out. The farther you look, the fuzzier it gets." But for most of Colorado Springs, the future, fuzzy or otherwise...
...Pope's Dunciad, Rape of the Lock, Essay on Man, and assorted Epistles and Elegles. Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes is printed in full, as are Swift's Description of the Morning and his Verses On The Death Of Doctor Swift. There are generous selections from Mathew Prior, Isaac Watts, John Gay, Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith, Christopher Smart, Robert Burns, and William Blake, and an appropriately limited one from that misplaced Poet Laureate Colley Cibber. Lonsdale has often embellished Smith's selections from deserving poets like William Cowper and the dazzling and vitriolic Charles Churchill...
...current, all of them finely polished. Over the course of 60 years of independent proprietorship, The New Yorker won an enviably loyal audience along with an honored place on the country's cultural mantel. The magazine proved an accommodating haven for stylish writers as disparate as James Thurber and Isaac Bashevis Singer, E.B. White and J.D. Salinger. To many observers, the elegant weekly seemed not only steeped in tradition but nearly immutable, from its stubborn tenancy of a warren of cramped offices on Manhattan's 43rd Street to its whimsical insistence on printing its foppish inaugural cover every February...