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...logical conclusion. In the midst of a passage on why divorce is necessary to preserve peace in society, for example, the sages will suddenly and bewilderingly leapfrog into a brief discussion of robbery and the right of the heathen poor to share in the harvest gleanings. Nineteenth Century Historian Isaac Jost compared the Talmud to a great mine, containing "the finest gold and the rarest gems, as well as the merest dross...
According to a department memorandum that will circulate on Tuesday, the new policy will go into effect in January. Isaac Kramnick, head tutor in Government, said that the solution reflects the Government Department's unanimous recommendation that all grades be abolished. But in order to establish a totally ungraded course, the Committee on Educational Policy told the Department that a vote by the Faculty would be necessary...
...heroes of God's novel, we are all immortal," Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jewish novelist and short story writer, told a crowd of 250 last night at 2 Divinity...
...plan, originated by Isaac Kramnick '59, Head Tutor in Government, was designed to end "the total anarchy of sophomore tutorial." It would have focused on twentieth-century political science, stressing the contrast between traditional and original approaches. Each tutor was to plan his own reading list on this topic...
...ISAAC STERN (Columbia). The violin concertos of Samuel Barber and Paul Hindemith test Stern's talents in contrasting ways. For Barber, the violin must gently caress the lush phrases and clearly sing the profusion of simple melodies. With Hindemith, the instrument becomes one of dark conflict. Stern is superbly in control of both, as is Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic...