Word: mensh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...publisher -seem absurdly at odds with his own wretched writing performance this time out. According to Uris, what most writers apparently forget is basic storytelling -a skill he himself once practiced but has neglected in this heavily predictable tale. Then there is that literary creation Author Abe himself, a mensh who makes Hemingway seem as mousy as Mann. Writing is heavy going for Abe. He throws himself into each book with such desperate energy that he is often "unable to lace his shoes" at the end of a day's work...