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...Gore's job this week is clear. Unless he uses the convention to persuade white male voters that he is, as they say of his running mate, Joe Lieberman, a mensch - and, since Gore is top man, even more of a mensch than Lieberman - then his chances in November start...
...just knows everyone in the upper levels of academic world," he said. " She has a tremendous first hand knowledge of people...you can call her a mensch...
...interesting than just that event. For a brief, hilarious season early on, at Columbia University, he campaigned for the 1920 Republican vice-presidential nominee, Calvin Coolidge; but in the mid-'20s he pinballed leftward and joined the Communist Party, animated by an anguished convert's zeal. A melodramatically ernste Mensch (serious man), as he liked to say, Chambers began as a useful party "literate," hacking away as a foreign-news reporter for the dreary Daily Worker, contributing to the New Masses...
...also wants to be How Nice. Stern hopes to be "understood"--as a caring husband, a faithful friend, a mensch for all seasons. Don Rickles did this for decades, of course, insulting his listeners before sucking up to them (I hate you! Love me!). Stern just does it on radio. Maybe he really cares for his audience as much as he does for his wife. In the movie he expresses that love by making radio jokes about her miscarriage and telling a woman who's about to strip in his studio that Alison died of cancer. Yeah, Howard. Love...
...Maybe these Harvardians should not be so star-struck," Ms. Rose high-mindedly intones, perhaps forgetting that elsewhere in her own article she refers to Mr. Hanks--with whom she has presumably interacted only through his brief press conference--as a "delightful mix of thoughtfulness and winning verve," a "mensch," and a "doll" who may be the "one nice guy left in Hollywood" (Ms. Rose has presumably met all the other guys in Hollywood--hey, she's a Crimson editor). Did Mr. Hanks behave well? You bet! He "was all grace and charm" as he "performed admirably," "sidestepped any awkwardness...