Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answer to the complaint made against box lunches, Mrs. Bunting gave the student representatives, Merry A. Isaac's '63 and Sarah C. Dublin '63, permission to contact the College dietitian. The girls will request a box lunch plan similar to that at Harvard, whereby students may choose among several possible sandwiches. At present, one lunch is given to everyone each...
Moralizer to Observer. Born in London at a time when Jews were forbidden to serve in Parliament, the Chronicle was founded by a onetime sailor in Nelson's fleet, Isaac Vallentine, who filled the four-page, twopenny Chronicle mostly with "religious and moral instruction" for the 30,000 Jews then living in Britain. By the end of its first year, it was reporting, with undisguised satisfaction, the appointment of a British Jew to public office (high sheriff of Devon...
Scattered through these pages are gleanings from many a bottom drawer: an early nature essay by Proust, a radio play by Brendan Behan (both in Evergreen), in which he continues to re-Joyce, a shrewdly funny story by Israel's Isaac Babel (Noble Savage...
...SPINOZA OF MARKET STREET, by Isaac Bashevis Singer (214 pp.; Farrar, Straus & Cudahy; $3.95). In these tales about Poland's Jewish ghettos before World War II, Isaac Singer creates a world so fresh, so full of the beat and cries of astonishing life that he can fairly be called one of the few originals now writing. It is a world in which God and the devil are constantly in contention, in which imps, cabalistic mysteries and ancient Talmudic heresies are as much a part of the passing show as a quarrel in the market place. The best of these...
...technology the liberator of our resources rather than a ravenous consumer. We must recognize the power and value of technical simplicity as distinguished from the complexity that we too often regard as sophistication. We have tended to ignore something that the best Paris dress designers-and Sir Isaac Newton-never forgot: the ultimate of sophistication is simplicity itself...