Word: kosher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guests of the glittery Americana Hotel in suburban Miami sat down for a lunch of roast beef, string beans sautée with mushrooms, fondant of potatoes, salad, petits-fours and coffee. Neither butter nor cream was on the table; everything is always strictly kosher at the serious, elaborate dinners that open the annual fund-raising campaigns of the nation's most successful charity, the United Jewish Appeal...
...Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz, by Ilya Ehrenburg. In 1927 the slithiest tove in the Soviet literary propaganda corps aimed this sizzling satirical poker at the Russian Revolution. Ehrenburg recently denounced its publication in the West, an act the non-hero of this kosher Candide would have relished...
...Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz, by Ilya Ehrenburg. A previously untranslated 1927 satire of revolutionary Russia by the man who is now Communism's No. 1 journalistic Pooh-Bah. This kosher Candide reincarnates the nonhero of Jewish folklore: Peter Schlemiel, the enemy of commissar...
...tone, the book resembles that comic masterpiece of World War I. The Good Soldier Schweik: in form, it is a kind of kosher Candide...
...gregarious "coffeehouse guy," he mixes at all levels of the Hollywood social scale-in the Holmby Hills Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra), in the Kosher Rat Pack (Groucho Marx and friends), even in the exclusive A Group (top studio brass and long-established superstars, like Gary Cooper). For all his gregariousness, he can be cruel without reason, successfully plays the domestic tyrant. At dinner one evening, his wife Audrey announced brightly: "Darling, do you realize this is our anniversary?" Replied Wilder: "Please-not while I'm eating." Says Playwright George Axelrod: "Billy is essentially, not personally, mean. Most...