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...MANOR, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. In this tragicomic account of the changes that rack a Victorian Polish-Jewish family, a popular Yiddish storyteller demonstrates that he has the credentials of a major novelist...
...MANOR, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. A popular Yiddish storyteller powerfully projects his own sense of exile, while demonstrating that he has the credentials of a major novelist, in this tragicomedic account of the changes that rack a Victorian Polish-Jewish family...
...MANOR, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. A popular Yiddish storyteller proves that he also has the insights of a major novelist in this tragicomedy about the changes that wrench a Polish-Jewish family in the late 1800s...
Perhaps the Suzuki method will in time overcome the U.S. shortage. Until it does, chances are that more and more orchestras will look to the Far East. The Orientals are not only more available but competent and eager as well. As Isaac Stern explains: "A top-class Tokyo violinist starts at less than $100 a month, while in America today an orchestral musician is a member of an elite, well-paid profession." Adds Master Teacher Galamian, only partly in jest: "There was a time when all the finest violinists were Jewish and came from Odessa. Maybe now they will...
...built in the 20th century. Etienne-Louis Boullée (1728-99) was a popular teacher at Paris' Royal Academy of Architecture who designed giant globular monuments as a means of classroom elucidation. Among the remaining sketches of his works is one of a projected monument for Sir Isaac Newton, consisting of a giant sphere pierced by tiny openings to simulate starlight. Today's planetariums and, indeed, even Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes recall his precedent...