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...Though Isaac Bashevis Singer still writes his short stories in Yiddish, and though his style and subject matter place him in the great tradition of Yiddish writing, Kenneth Rexroth has called him "certainly one of the most remarkable American authors who has ever lived...
...residence, issued a flurry of mimeographed essays arguing that segre gation is authorized in the Bible. One scriptural text she cited was Genesis 21, which describes how Sara asks Abraham to cast out from his house the Egyptian concubine Hagar, whose son "shall not be heir with my son Isaac." On the assumption that no Egyptian can be white. Mrs. Gaillot argues that this passage "surely must mean no playing together in school." Biblical scholars dismiss her interpretation of this and other texts as ridiculously narrow-minded...
Hands off, in fact, has been the production policy from the outset. Both Jersey Standard and the producers have guaranteed the performers autonomy and artistic freedom; hence they have been able to line up the Metropolitan Opera's George London, Violinist Isaac Stern, Guitarist Andres Segovia and Cellist Pablo Casals for subsequent concerts. Dorothy Stickney will do readings from Edna St. Vincent Millay. Margaret Leighton will read Dorothy Parker: A Telephone Call, Dusk Before Fireworks, The Lovely Leave. Britain's Michael Flanders and Donald Swann will do the same, somewhat intellectual variety show they scored with on Broadway...
...those fields, Cambridge has led Oxford ever since the 17th century, when legend has it that an apple plopped on Don Isaac Newton's head and inspired his theory of gravity. In its famed Cavendish Laboratory, founded in 1872, Cambridge boasts one of the world's great centers of nuclear research. At Cavendish in 1919, Sir Ernest Rutherford first demonstrated nuclear reaction. Then Sir James Chadwick discovered the neutron; others have gone on to everything from the kinetic theory of gases to isolating the insulin molecule and piercing space with radio astronomy. "When it comes to research," says...
...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Guests include George London, Isaac Stern, Mahalia Jackson...