Word: gemutlichkeit
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...observe that moment of the year when, with the coming of the cold, we have to go inside and stay there for several months. From now on, if we venture out, we must wear gloves. Thanksgiving, with its bleak, drizzly gemutlichkeit and warm, unventilated smells of cooking, makes us as sleepy as bears and accommodates us to the idea of winter quarters in the cave. That's why the Chicago Bears always play the Detroit Lions on Thanksgiving afternoon on a flickering TV set somewhere off on the margins of the cooking...
...There have been times during subzero winter power blackouts when we have pulled a futon next to the fire and slept there, curled up as close as we could get to the heat without igniting the blankets. On the other hand, the wood stove in the kitchen radiates efficient gemutlichkeit--a cloying heat, like the house on a Thanksgiving afternoon that has gone on too long...
...wife. They started it about 18 years ago, when no sober carpenter could be hired on the cay. Much of the work, from laying cinder blocks to routing the panels in the heavy mahogany doors, was done by visiting Mennonites. The lodge is friendly, unpretentious and full of tropical Gemutlichkeit. Its barracuda seviche and fried grouper are delicious...
AVALON. If gemutlichkeit were a Yiddish word, it would describe the tone that writer-director Barry Levinson aims for in this bustling memoir of his immigrant grandparents in Baltimore. But the family portrait is too soft- focus, and the residue is schmaltz...
...Americans manage to forget for so many years that downtowns are invigorating and old cities grand? That the dignity and Gemutlichkeit of 18th century buildings and 19th century streets are incomparable? That the physical past is worth preserving? Did a majority of Americans in 1970 actually prefer Century City to San Francisco? Were people fetched by the shiny new discord of Houston suburbs more than by shabby, genteel New Orleans, by the glass and steel of downtown Minneapolis more than by the brick and stone of downtown St. Paul...