Outstanding

I have given this book four stars instead of five because it really should have come with a magnifying glass. There are over 3500 covers (in color) from the start of the last century and they are all one and a half inches by two inches, actually they could have been a bit bigger by reducing the generous margins round each cover.

Despite the small size there is plenty to enjoy in this well printed book. All the Rockwell's and Leyendecker's are here and into the forties and fifties you can follow Albert Staele's cover paintings of his spaniel Butch, or the regular winter snow scene covers painted by John Clymer. My favourite is Stevan Dohanos, he seemed to delight in cramming in as much detail as possible offering reader's a reassurance of the familiar and everday. Some publisher should do a book of his Post covers.

I was interested to see the covers of the short lived new look Post from September 61 to June 62, these were created by the famous designer Herb Lubalin but his efforts did not impress Middle America and the cover and inside look returned to the regular style. I always thought they looked great and I would love to have these 37 issues in my Post collection (send me an email if you have them)

From late 1962 the Post covers were almost all photographic, just like any other mass market magazine and the last weekly issue came out on February 8 1969. This book is a visual record of a unique American publication, just have your magnifying glass handy to enjoy the experience.

I thought Rimsky was a boring old Russian with a big beard till I read this. This is certainly the most excting volume on a composer since Robert Craft interviewed Stravinsky (one of Rimsky's pupils, after all). It takes a composer previously known only for a colourful oriental fantasy and opens up a whole world of Slavonic exuberance and melancholy such as had only previously been associated with Tchaikovsky.

Anyway, I thought it was a bloody good read and I'm now going to search the catalogues for recordings of obscure Russian operas and songs - I can't get enough of them!

These "Tales of Mystery and Suspense" are guarenteed to keep you in Suspense! My favorite one was "Lady Killer" about a woman who believes that her food poisioning was no accident. The only one that wasn't good was "The Face is Familiar" with Jack Benny.

A trust is where person A instructs person B to manage money or some asset to be given to person C or cause C in the future or in installments. There are so many ways in which these simple plans can fall apart. Beyer's lecture gave me a good idea of all the issues out there. I found these tapes useful. There are four tapes in this series, and the last side of the last tape is blank. I think Beyer should have discussed more or condensed his talk to three tapes. All that dead air makes you think that something must be missing.

After reading and enjoying Wandering Stars in its original published version many years ago, I was really looking forward to reading this sequel. However, I found that it did not live up to the promise of its predecessor.

Most of the stories were fantasy, rather than science fiction, and I'm not particularly fond of that genre. It was a definite letdown.

I enjoy science fiction short stories and I enjoy stories with a Jewish view, so this seemed like a perfect collection for me. It was. I found it interesting to see what these different writers, from Woody Allen to Isac Bashevis Singer and Harlan Ellison, came up with for a Jewish sci-fi story. As with any story collection some are better than others. Some basic knowledge of Judaism and Jewish history helps to understand some of the stories.

I must admit that I didn't enjoy this anthology as much as its 1974 predecessor, "Wandering Stars." Maybe that's because I read "Wandering Stars" way back in the 70s, when I was like a thirsty man in the desert, delighted to find anything F&SF with a Jewish theme. "More Wandering Stars" I just read for the first time this weekend, (somehow I missed it in 1981), and my expectations are now higher. Hence the four star rating -- it's a good read, but not as good as its predecessor.

There is very little science fiction here -- most of the pieces are more like fantasy, and some would be difficult to distinguish from ordinary Jewish folklore. I.B. Singer's "The Last Demon" is one of these, as is "The Celestial Orchestra" by Howard Schwartz, which is really a re-telling of a classic tale by the 18th-century Hasidic Rebbe, Nachman of Breslov.

Don't get me wrong -- there is some good speculative fiction included. I especially liked "Phyllis Gotlieb's "Tauf Aleph" (named after the last and first letters of the Hebrew alphabet), about a robot programmed with the entire corpus of Jewish knowledge and sent to the planet of the last Jew in the universe. (That one is definitely SF). In "Dress Rehearsal" by Harvey Jacobs, a group of aliens are learning English from a Jewish actor -- with humorous results, but you need to know some Yiddish to get the jokes. The same is true of Isaac Asimov's intro, where he slips into the Yinglish patois of his Jewish upbringing, to give us a tongue-in-cheek SF analysis of the Bible.

On the more serious side, there's "Warm Dark Places" by Horace L. Gold, which is a sort of sequel to his "Trouble With Water" in the previous "Stars" anthology. But, whereas "Trouble" is rather humorous, "Dark Places" is a creepy little tale. Then there's "Camps" by Jack ("Yankele") Dann, where a hospital patient keeps having nightmares about life in a concentration camp -- a place where he has never been, in this life at least... (Readers of my own books on cases of reincarnation from the Holocaust should note that Dann's story was published in 1979, only three years before my first case in 1981. I find that rather eerie.)

Quite a few of these stories require a modicum (or more) of knowledge about Jewish history and culture in order to understand the themes or, in some cases, the satire. "Leviticus: in the Ark" is one such, where a man is chosen each year to be locked in the Ark at the front of the synagogue where the Torah scrolls are kept. No, folks, there is NO such a ritual in Judaism, and never has been. The tale is an allegory for loss of faith. Ditto for "The Pagan Rabbi." In the case of "Forcing the End" by Hugh Nissenson, it helps to know the story of Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai -- which Jack Dann has thoughtfully provided in his intro to the tale.

As for the rest of the stories, most of them didn't do it for me. Harlan Ellison's "Mom" was a hackneyed disappointment, because the "Jewish Mother" stereotype is so outdated and overworked. Then again, it was written in 1976. I find myself wondering what kind of stories today's Jewish SF writers might write. Maybe someday we'll see a third anthology, "Yet More Wandering Stars?"

First of all, I can't see how this book can come off saying it's for students. A big hunk of the monologues are NOT age appropriate. They're for older women, looking back on their lives. It is important to know your range - and I'm sorry, but college students just aren't in their 60s for the most part! We don't have the life experience to give honesty to these roles. Also, a huge chunk of the monologues for women are story telling, another thing you should try to avoid in monologues.

I do NOT recommend this book to any college women who are looking for something to use at auditions.

This book has everything you need to perform. Monologs (good ones, which are very hard to come by), duets, group scenes, EVERYTHING! All of them are either award winning plays or excerpts from them. Each different performance has an intro to it that gives information like: what the stage sould look like, what awards the play one, what other plays the playwright wrote and where the play was performed. The only problem is that the monologs are too short for the contests I enter. Does anyone know of any books that have 5 to 7 minute monologs? Thanks!

If this is the best professor of evidence, I cannot imagine who is the worst. I am a 3L and I do not think I have heard a worse lecture of any subject in two years of law school.

The Professor sounds like he is reading the lecture from a script on evidence at a pace of about 150 MPH. There is literally no time to reflect on anything that is being said in the lecture. The only pauses on the tape come when the Professor chokes on his candy which you can here him chewing on throughout the lecture. Do yourself a favor and DO NOT buy the Sum and Substance Evidence Tapes with Professor Goode.

I gave the lecture one star because there was not a lower rating.

I don't know what the last guy is talking about-- I bought these tapes because Evidence was my last exam and driving home for Thanksgivings I felt like it would be a good time to spend a little time on it. Because so many people had rec'd these tapes I bought them on my way out of town. I'm not into booktapes, but after it got through the first 10 minutes and picked up a little--- everything fell together! I wouldn't necessarily say listen before you have a grasp on anything. But I think that its a GREAT review for exams!! It made so many things make more sense and clarified a lot of issues.

When trying to choose a retirement destination no one should relie on just one book.It was helpful in that it gave me an understanding of what I want and a idea of what I don't want.I will look at other books and videos before I have a clearer picture of what I desire.

There was a lot of good information about where to stay in Hawaii. I found the information about planning a wedding to be a bit sparse. I wish there was more about florists, photographers, etc., and more than just one wedding consultant per island listed.

When I went to law school, I was told to avoid conflicts like the plague. This lecture series helped alleve (sp?) my fears. If you have an understanding of civil procedure, you can get the gist of this subject. The lecturer has a dead-pan voice that may turn off some listeners. Also, so many of the most exemplary cases involve out-of-state car fatalities and divorce cases, so be prepared to be depressed. Still, I found these tapes useful. I'm a little concerned that the professor could have added more material. Still, I found his lecture to be a valuable study aid.