Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When I was a boy," the guest conductor told the orchestra, "there were four very good young violinists here in San Francisco. One was Isaac Stern, one was Ruggiero Ricci, one was Yehudi Menuhin, and the fourth was Joe Alioto. I know what happened to the first three-but what ever became of Joe Alioto?" Among other things, he grew up to be mayor of San Francisco. Now he was before the San Francisco Symphony, telling jokes on himself and preparing to lead the orchestra through the opening number of a benefit performance. The mayor, who still practices his violin...
...printed a continuing debate be tween Authors Isaac Asimov and Ar thur C. Clarke over the existence of a particle that travels faster than light...
...form favored by authors whose main interest is cash. But more and more serious writers are adding rooms and views to already created structures. In Numquam, Lawrence Durrell continues his story (begun in Tune) of the "thinking weed" Felix Charlock and his struggles with the vast Merlin corporation. Isaac Bashevis Singer transplants the children from The Manor in Poland to The Estate in America. Elsewhere in Europe, Sarah Gainham conducts what is left of her cast of Viennese characters from Night Falls on the City into the postwar era. C. P. Snow has achieved a double sequel of sorts...
...trouble with the American lib eral middle class, Abbie complains, is that-among other things-it lives the myth of Abraham and Isaac backward: " 'God is dead,' they cry, 'and we did it for the kids.' " (Abraham, of course, was prepared to kill his own son for God.) On student revolt, he comments: "And so you ask, 'What about the innocent bystanders?' But we are in a time of revolution. If you are a bystander, you are not innocent." He is particularly ferocious toward the press: "The headline of the Daily News today reads...
...allowed here who has not already shown talent and promise. Still, it is hard not to be nervous. Autographed portraits of Kreisler, Szigeti, Milstein-all good friends of Galamian's -glare down from the walls. The air seems to tingle with his awesome reputation in the violin world. Isaac Stern calls him "the most effective violin teacher in the country," and he certainly has the alumni to prove it. Most of the brightest young soloists in the U.S. are Galamian products; Itzhak Perlman, Young Uck Kim, Jaime Laredo, Paul Zukofsky and James Oliver Buswell IV. In addition, Galamian...