Word: mensh
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...Betty Mensh and Alan Freeman, Professors of Law at the State University of New York at Buffalo, wrote in the recent issue of Tikkun, "This ("We are not a minority') attitude is just another version of the assimilationist ploy that has been all too fateful for the Jews in the past...the vice of assimilation is that it is always superficial and fragile. Wouldn't it be better to abandon such a foolish enterprise, to give up on false security in order to regain dignity and self-respect...
...Albert Brooks" is no mensh, but neither is he an obvious ogre. Nothing is obvious in Brooks' work. It is only halfway through Modern Romance -about the time he is riffling through his girlfriend's phone bills to determine if she is conducting a transcontinental affair on the side - that you are likely to wonder, "Does this guy realize how unlikable he is?" It is at this moment that Brooks' strategy has succeeded. He has made you more profoundly ill at ease than Don Rickles ever could. Insult comics merely try to focus hostility; Brooks is after...
...charm. In interviews she is confiding and insouciant, first disarming her subjects, then enlisting them in a delicious conspiracy. Her secret: "I'm not afraid to reveal myself. I like to laugh. I'm not embarrassed to enjoy what I do. The idea is to be a mensh." On Oct. 13, Stamberg will help Jimmy Carter field listeners' questions over NPR on the second call-in show of his presidency...
...Gary Cooper role goes to Major Kabakov of the Israeli Secret Service, a tough mensh who (unlike the book's CIA men) is in no danger of stepping on his own necktie. Kabakov's stalking of Dahlia and Lander is competently described, violent, technically interesting and utterly predictable...
...what it means to be a Jew in fewer words. It means to be sometimes frightened, sometimes a victim of prejudice. But more, it means to be basically warm, loving, determined, tolerant, and involved. In other words, to be a mensh, a person...