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Isaac Bashevis Singer's constant readers know well what his books promise: the sense of returning home to a place and a time that few now living ever inhabited. Over the breadth and span of nearly 30 volumes, writing originally in Yiddish, Singer has resuscitated the Poland that existed before World War I and then, precariously, between the wars. He has peopled his land with the folk he knew when he was growing up among them, creating in the process a nation of characters. Their names have changed from book to book and story to story, but they have...
...birth in Boston, to 1963, the year of John F. Kennedy's murder, a year he terms "the Divide"-not simply for him but for an America on the edge of upheaval. (White plans a second volume covering the '60s and '70s.) The following excerpts span three continents and a tempestuous quarter-century...
Kite flying is no childish pastime. It demands skill, ingenuity and an attention span rarely possessed by the young. Some of the great kite innovators, after all, have included such mature fellows as Leonardo da Vinci, Ben Franklin, the Wright brothers and Alexander Graham Bell, whose tetrahedral model once lifted a man 168 ft. According to Wyatt Brummitt, author of a 1971 book called?what else? ?Kites, it helps a kiter to be "slightly nutty." Brummitt, 81, adds that enthusiasts must also have "a little imagination and a little sense of serenity to enjoy the sense of extension...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Constitutional Convention, which began meeting last fall, sought to change that situation. Over a span of six months, convention delegates hashed out a charter for a new student government, featuring a Student Assembly and provisions for calling frequent campus-wide referenda on key issues. Spurred on by a feeling of student helplessness in the face of the impending Core Curriculum, delegates billed the proposed constitution as the only answer to the problem of Harvard students' institutional impotence...
DIED. Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, 83, Prime Minister of Australia for an unprecedented 16-year span (1949-66), who founded the Liberal Party and took a firm stand against the "downward threat" of Communism; of a heart attack; in Melbourne. The son of a small-town grocer, Menzies always had "a respect for the rights of the top dog." He was never a popular leader, but he towered above his colleagues as a magnificent orator and consummate politician. Nevertheless, his first term as Prime Minister, from 1939 to 1941, ended with a sweeping victory for the Labor Party. He made...