Article: David Brooks Accessible New 2023 Book (REVIEW ESSAY) - Pope Francis (born in 1936), the first Jesuit pope, has urged people, not just practicing Catholics, to engage in encounter and dialogue. Those people who respond positively to his urging to engage in encounter and dialogue might find David Brooks accessible new 2023 book How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen (Random House) informative and instructive and encouraging.
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Yaakov Schwartz is The Times of Israel s deputy Jewish World editor.
Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer, in his Miami Beach apartment, October 10, 1978. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
In 2014, author and literary scholar David Stormberg took his first trip to the archives at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, in search of material by the late Yiddish-language Jewish-American writer Isaac Bashevis Singer. He hit the motherlode.
“I was looking for Bashevis Singer’s essays because I was interested in his non-fiction and worldview writing on literature, on Judaism and Yiddish, and also his personal philosophy,” Stromberg told The Times of Israel in a recent telephone interview from his home in Jerusalem. “What I didn’t expect to find, but what I did find, is that he’d already translated enough material for an entire book.”
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Looking sorrowfully in the mirror, her doll tossed aside and a movie magazine in her lap, Rockwell’s model seems to be aware she’s about to leave childhood behind in this March 6, 1954, cover,
Girl at the Mirror. What will the future hold? Will she be pretty? Will she be plain? These somber thoughts are accented by the photo of beauty queen Jane Russell she has been studying.
But what was she really thinking? Many years later, Rockwell’s model Mary Whelan told the
Post she was only in fifth grade at the time and actually had never given much thought to growing up. To achieve the somber mood he wanted, Rockwell first asked her to imagine she’d finally outgrown all her dolls. Mary, a self-described tomboy, replied that she never played with dolls. So he suggested she simply picture herself as an adult and dream about all the things she would do with her life.