Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over cocktails with French Ambassador Herve Alphand a few weeks earlier, the adroit name-dropper dropped into Al-phand's pocket a list of U.S. cultural leaders (among them: Tennessee Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Isaac Stern) who had never been accorded the Legion d'Honneur. As White House Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. later told Lyons: "You were to have been invited, but the French ambassador suddenly brought in a long guest list-and it left no room for you." At Horizon House, a five-room cottage for the disabled at New York University's Institute of Physical Medicine...
...Isaac D. Hurwitz '53, assistant concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony, and pianist Raymond Rendall, associate professor of music at Wesleyan, will perform in the Adams House lower common room at 8:30 p.m. Sunday. On the admission-free program will be sonatas by Mozart, Brahms and Charles Ives...
...Though Isaac Bashevis Singer still writes his short stories in Yiddish, and though his style and subject matter place him in the great tradition of Yiddish writing, Kenneth Rexroth has called him "certainly one of the most remarkable American authors who has ever lived...
...residence, issued a flurry of mimeographed essays arguing that segre gation is authorized in the Bible. One scriptural text she cited was Genesis 21, which describes how Sara asks Abraham to cast out from his house the Egyptian concubine Hagar, whose son "shall not be heir with my son Isaac." On the assumption that no Egyptian can be white. Mrs. Gaillot argues that this passage "surely must mean no playing together in school." Biblical scholars dismiss her interpretation of this and other texts as ridiculously narrow-minded...
Hands off, in fact, has been the production policy from the outset. Both Jersey Standard and the producers have guaranteed the performers autonomy and artistic freedom; hence they have been able to line up the Metropolitan Opera's George London, Violinist Isaac Stern, Guitarist Andres Segovia and Cellist Pablo Casals for subsequent concerts. Dorothy Stickney will do readings from Edna St. Vincent Millay. Margaret Leighton will read Dorothy Parker: A Telephone Call, Dusk Before Fireworks, The Lovely Leave. Britain's Michael Flanders and Donald Swann will do the same, somewhat intellectual variety show they scored with on Broadway...