Word: nebbishness
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Herb Gardner, who lauds the virtues of undisciplined living and childlike, unprejudiced perceptivity, is a whimsical creator himself. Originator of the nebbish, Gardner has one television play, one novel, and one (the program tells all) outstanding short story to his credit. This play mustn't be a lone effort. It is a wonderful, wonderful cartoon that shows great feeling for both exaggeration and understatement. Satire without ostentatious poignancy, daffiness that doesn't amount to incoherence, Gardner's play is that miracle, a comedy at which people laugh...
...sophomores evolved an idea last September that many in the industry regard as the first innovation in greeting cards since the nebbish. Balancing lights on stacks of books, using a table top as a studio and a windowshade as a backdrop, Talisman photographed a group of models sculpted by his partner. They then capitalized on the University's geographical distribution in lining up eighty ingenious undergraduates to promote the cards across the country over the Christmas vacation...
...cleaned up, that the Jewish humor is sacrificed to the self-conscious contemporary convention that seldom allows so much as a smile with a racial or religious twist. Although the word is taboo, the poor exploited slob who ghosted Sammy's screenplays is still a nebbish; every now and then, Blyden's voice echoes with accurate Lower East Side accents...