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Violinist Isaac Stern, 45, bowed solemnly to the audience, tucked the fiddle under his chin, and began a vibrant performance of Schubert's Ave Maria. Suddenly, he vibrated a few perfectly awful noises, fudging the notes with the middle finger of his left hand. Stern's audience was the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, which was hearing an $85,000 damage suit brought by his old friend, Violinist Eric Rosenblith, who claims that an attendant at a car-rental agency in Allentown, Pa., slammed a door on his fingers, thereby impairing his ability to perform. After the rental...
Just as Galileo set the stage for Sir Isaac Newton, who compiled the laws of planetary motion and gravitation, Schmidt and his colleagues are forcing their contemporaries to exercise their inventive imaginations merely to comprehend what the great observatories have seen, and the clues collected from faint spectrograms may lead science into a new era of understanding. If astronomers can find an explanation for the birth of quasars, they may yet be able to find the secrets of Creation itself; and if physicists become familiar with the mechanics of elemental reac tions far out at the boundaries of perception, they...
...with aspirations of becoming a concert pianist. But he got married at 18 and quit college to take a job as a clerk in a record shop. Soon he shelved the classics to form a jazz trio with a pair of high school chums-Bassist Eldee Young and Drummer Isaac ("Red") Holt. For the next ten years, the trio roamed the outskirts of success as virtuosos of the expectable in a trade that doted on the different...
...professor, who in his eight-volume History of Magic and Experimental Science disputed the notion that the Middle Ages' magicians were charlatans, regarding them instead as "experimental scientists," and tracing into the 18th century a residue of the occult that affected even such logic-minded men as Sir Isaac Newton; following a stroke; in Manhattan...
...latest effort is by far his most ambitious-a 33-ft.-long History of the Russian Revolution (see overpage), The son of Russian immigrants (his father arrived in the U.S. in 1914, his mother in 1920), Rivers says that his work was actually spurred by reading Isaac Deutscher's trilogy on Trotsky and is "more a statement about art than about revolution." Explains Rivers: "Sure, I could have painted all the objects in, but I wanted to combine the sculptural qualities with the painting qualities...