Word: mendeler
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...Mendel, the son of a rabbi, grows up in Lomza, Poland. He breaks away and, on forged papers, emigrates to London, where he encounters the seductions of assimilation-oysters, Christian girls, spats, the troublesome dogmas of secularism. By degrees, Mendel sheds his Jewishness, finally adopting the professional name of Maurice Moritz. He becomes a party entertainer, singing The Amorous Goldfish and There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea in drawing rooms while aristocratic guests snooze in their dinner jackets...
...randy, argues minutiae of the Talmud with his 75-year-old son and dies one Friday night when he falls asleep and sets fire to himself. Kotlowitz's best creations are the Pilchik sisters, a pair of earthy, lively, possibly stupid originals from Odessa who try to convert Mendel to socialism. They disappear into the larger historical drama of the October Revolution with an over-the-shoulder verdict that Mendel "is not a serious...
...Where else but in South Carolina would a congressional candidate named Julian Sidi Limehouse III campaign in red, white and blue tennis sneakers? Yet Limehouse, 33, a Republican cattleman, is certainly considered more progressive than his opponent, Incumbent Democratic Representative Mendel J. Davis, 29, godson of Mendel Rivers, the late autocratic chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Davis is banking on the "Mendel mystique" and his role as protector of the military installations that were his godfather's legacy to the district. Limehouse, who goes about coatless and tieless and shows up at Democratic rallies to hand...
...year member Rep. Philip J. Philbin for the Democratic nomination in what was then Massachusetts's Third Congressional District Running on the wave of 1970's Kent State Cambodia uprisings. Drinan's issue was the war, and beyond that support for the administration. Philbin the second ranking Democrat on Mendel Rivers's House Armed Services Committee was a long-time hawk and administration supporter, Drinan wasn...
Richard Nixon, Lewis Strauss, Joe McCarthy, L. Mendel Rivers. He also had a reputation for going easy on friends, notably Lyndon Johnson, who sometimes sought his advice by telephone...