Word: mensches
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REGURGITATIVELY, Barth lifts his characters, these war correspondents of the literary battlefield, from each of his past books. The one new creation, Lady Amherst, is also the best. Her sequence of letters to the author describes the progress of her affair with Ambrose Mensch, a dilettante writer late of Lose in the Funhouse. Barth makes a feeble effort to set her up as an allegorical representation of "Belles Lettres," on which her--or Ambrose--hopes to father forth a new novel, but she balks, her past liaisons with famous men of letters notwithstanding...
...Fell to Earth. This man is hardly a mensch, that is when they show Bowie in the buff he doesn't even have a schlong! Woo woo! So that's why he came to America (penis envy.) Otherwise you wouldn't know. The movie is beautifully filmed and sometimes stands on the verge of not only showing intelligent life but also being the most cleverly wrapped political package since Chinatown. And then all of a sudden whap!--it's the dumbest one since The Day the Earth Stood Still. An article in last Thursday's Times about the Rugoft theater...
...young person grows out of his childish impulses and selfish desires. But young Kravitz shows little sign of any development at all, and we are left to guess whether or not he will serve out his apprenticeship and become a master or as Cohen would call it, a mensch...
...great deal of the murky world of Jack Ruby was obscured in hearsay and uncertainty. The Warren Commission unleashed an army of investigators to dredge up the facts about Ruby (né Jacob Rubenstein, alias J. Leon Rubenstein), the seedy Dallas strip-joint owner who yearned to be a mensch, a pillar of the community, but always remained a smalltime schwanz. Commission sleuths assembled a voluminous dossier that told everything-and nothing-about him. They could detail his gross income and net profits for February 1958, but they could not discover his exact birth date and wound up listing eight...
...Berlin, 150,000 leftists, wearing red armbands and red carnations, trudged down Unter den Linden to the Lustgarten. Spark and spontaneity were lacking. "Mensch!" exclaimed a German who remembered May Day parades under Goebbels and Ley. "There is no spirit here-it's a funeral procession...