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Oxfam, a Boston based charity, is the sole recipient of the Ride for Life 1983 proceeds. According to Oxfam spokesman Julia Sinclair, 41 percent of Ride for Life's $70,000 pledge has materialized to date. She added that the ride has made "a dramatic difference" in the organization by developing resource pools from Iowa to Oregon...
Last summer's trip was funded by $40,000 in corporate contributions, Sinclair said. New York's Sheraton Hotel donated $8,000 in accommodations, while United Airlines provided a cut-rate flight to Seattle and Kabuki Bicycles gave a discount on equipment...
...double biography, The Brothers Singer, British Writer Clive Sinclair traces that journey back to Poland, where Singer was born in 1904. If a writer's capital is his childhood, Singer is a literary Rothschild, still retailing anecdotes he heard swirling through the streets of Bilgoray and Lublin. Many stories contain transsexual themes-oblique references to his mother and father; Isaac's older brother, Novelist Israel Joshua Singer (The Brothers Ashkenazi), called his parents' marriage "a tragedy, due to the fact that fate transposed genders in heaven." His father, a rabbi, was "soft," his wife was "sharp...
...older boy became a total skeptic, exaggerating his mother's tendencies; Isaac rebelled against rebellion, ransacking "the spiritual treasure trove" of religious belief. As Sinclair observes, Isaac the daydreamer "gloried in the aristocracy of his imagination." His sibling "observed the world as a political machine...
Indeed, in The Penitent he still refers to Israel as "my late brother and master." Sinclair's luminous little volume is hardly the definitive study of the brothers Singer, but in its examination of sources it shows why Isaac has earned the title he once bestowed on another character: the magician of Lublin. Writing in Yiddish, using the demonic forces of art and recollection, he has kept his brother's memory alive, raised a ruined city, given the power of speech to a vanished people and revived an ailing language. Is it any wonder that...