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...SLAVE (311 pp.)-Isaac Bashevis Singer-Farrar,Straus&Cudahy...
...obsessions speak with the force of art; the hacks are more likely to follow the fashion, which is to whimper at Meaninglessness. The late Nikos Kazantzakis (The Last Temptation of Christ; St. Francis) was such a God-obsessed artist, and so, in a slighter and less intense way, is Isaac Singer, 57, a Pole (now a U.S. citizen) who lives in Manhattan and writes in Yiddish. His subjects are usually lowly Polish Jews, important only to themselves, God and the Devil; the mark of his skill is that he makes them-and makes God and the Devil-important to secular...
...ENGLAND CONSERVATORY Isaac Stern, violinist Mus.D...
Over cocktails with French Ambassador Herve Alphand a few weeks earlier, the adroit name-dropper dropped into Al-phand's pocket a list of U.S. cultural leaders (among them: Tennessee Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Isaac Stern) who had never been accorded the Legion d'Honneur. As White House Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. later told Lyons: "You were to have been invited, but the French ambassador suddenly brought in a long guest list-and it left no room for you." At Horizon House, a five-room cottage for the disabled at New York University's Institute of Physical Medicine...
...Isaac D. Hurwitz '53, assistant concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony, and pianist Raymond Rendall, associate professor of music at Wesleyan, will perform in the Adams House lower common room at 8:30 p.m. Sunday. On the admission-free program will be sonatas by Mozart, Brahms and Charles Ives...