Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...holiday approached, they were set to work decorating the halls and classrooms, for no one else in the school could paint a livelier Easter rabbit, a jollier Santa Claus or a spookier Halloween witch than the Soyer boys. Today, at 62, the twins-as well as their younger brother Isaac-are noted artists whose quiet and moody paintings change little but never date...
...about a change here that will influence the entire future of ballet and music.'' Few who sensed the shock waves of excitement in Russian intellectual circles last week doubted that Balanchine knew what he was talking about. The visits of U.S. instrumentalists such as Van Cliburn and Isaac Stern may have been more loudly acclaimed by the Russian man in the street. But it remained for Russia's two great expatriates -one of whom had not set foot in his homeland for half a century, the other for better than 35 years-to trouble and challenge some...
...first time since he has been driving A.C.'s Viking, Russell reluctantly went to his whip, and the tired horse responded instantly with a burst of speed that was just enough to carry him across the line a neck in front of a rank outsider named Isaac...
...Every second day another new supermarket opens in Britain, and the average will soon be bettered. Reason: Britain's greatest merchant prince, Sir Isaac Wolfson, 64, has entered the field by merging William Cussons Co. into his Great Universal Stores Ltd. and plans to expand Cussons' present chain of 60 stores to at least 200 supermarkets. The son of poor Polish Jewish immigrants, Sir Isaac (he was made a baronet earlier this year for his large gifts to charity) started work in his father's Glasgow cabinetmaking shop, later set up his own furniture store in London...
...companies. But his usual method of financing is to form "development partnerships" with outfits that have land or funds to invest (among them: Unilever, Imperial Tobacco, Oxford's Brasenose College). The partner supplies most of the capital, Cotton the knowledge. Last year he formed such a partnership with Isaac Wolfson's Great Universal Stores to rebuild many of the chain's 2,000 branches. He is now negotiating similar partnerships with Philips Electrical and Cunard...