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...inspired madness," Irving Howe once wrote. Counters Singer: "Yiddish contains vitamins that other languages don't have." Choice of vitamins is not his only idiosyncrasy. A vegetarian who refuses to swat flies, a firm believer in the supernatural, Singer has mysteriously grown more prolific with age: since his 50th birthday he has written eight novels, ten children's books, four memoirs and scores of short stories. All of them are suffused with, in the Nobel committee's memorable phrase, "the author's apparently inexhaustible psychological fantasy ... of manias and superstitions, fanatical hopes and dreams, the figments...
...50th Anniversary Class Report in 1943, McDaniel wrote, "The mere fact that President Roosevelt chanced to be one of my students at Harvard in 1901 makes my ultra-conservative friends eye me askance, suspecting that I may be partly responsible for some of his economic novelties. I wish that the Latin of my poor teaching could have made even a microscopic contribution to his masterful leadership in this...
...remember my first trip to Radio City Music Hall, back in the early '60s, when I was but a wee lad. I went with my grandparents, and we stood for two hours in a line that wrapped around the building, across Sixth Avenue and down 50th St. When we got into the movie palace, it was filled with huge bronze statues, large smoked-glass mirrors, and the biggest candy counter I'd ever seen...
...Radio City's last day. The grand old mid-town monument will close its financially-floundering doors, and the next customers who visit the place will be the bulldozers. When they get through, New York City will have a big hole in the ground at the corner of 50th and Sixth. No more huge lines (those disappeared years ago), no more Rockettes, no more block-long candy counters...
...invitation to play in the Carter White House came soon after the Inauguration, but Pianist Vladimir Horowitz took a rain check. For his second stint at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (he first played there in 1931 for Herbert Hoover), the maestro wanted to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his U.S. debut. And so he did, last week, thundering out fortissimi to an audience packed with the likes of Isaac Stern, Andrés Segovia and Mstislav Rostropovich. Carter, recalling the cherished Horowitz recording he had as a midshipman, said of his guest artist: "A true national treasure...