Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first commissioner, a Pennsylvania dairy farmer named Isaac Newton, became a martyr to the cause of agricultural progress. One summer afternoon in 1866, he noticed that a storm was gathering, hurried to the department's horticultural garden to rescue some experimental wheat specimens that had been cut but left outdoors. Bustling about in his top hat and frock coat, he suffered a heat stroke from which he never fully recovered...
...cover, and sat down to tell us "I have enjoyed TIME these 40 years and wish continued success for you." Then Albert Mallen of New York City whacked us about some errors we have had to admit, but softened the blow by ending with "Happy Birthday to You!" Isaac Michell wrote from Tel Aviv that he has been reading TIME since 1925, and offered "good wishes for the future of your/my weekly...
This issue of Mosaic includes no undergraduate fiction or poetry, but does contain an essay, "The Relevance of Jane Austen: Remarks on Jewish Writing in America," by Lewis Kampf, and a memoir by the Yiddish writer, Isaac Bashevis Singer...
Soviet Psychiatrist Isaac Goldberg could well understand his colleagues' doubts, but he insisted that he really did have an epileptic patient who could read ordinary print with her fingertips. To prove it, he had Rosa Kuleshova, 22, admitted to the Sverdlov Clinic for Nervous Disorders. There before a skeptical audience, Dr. Goldberg blindfolded Rosa and had the blindfold checked. Then Rosa opened a book at random, passed the fingertips of her right hand lightly over the page, and fluently read the text aloud. She did the same with a newspaper. Handed a snapshot, Rosa stroked the surface and said...
Festival of Performing Arts. Producers David Susskind and James Fleming put together a syndicated series that brought to television such performing masters as Violinist Isaac Stern, Cellist Pablo Casals, Actor Paul Scofield and his wife, Joy Parker, reading poetry, Margaret Leighton reading Dorothy Parker...