Word: paled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mention a few offenses that are uniquely Mirsky's. "Lukshin Kugel" is sloppily sentimental, affecting an uncritical nostalgia for the ghetto, and is narrated in a shoulder-shrugging Yiddish tone that is not maintained consistently. In one moment, the narrator sounds like a much-oppressed peasant from the Russian Pale ("Myself, I say, you never know when a pogrom is going to come along. One minute you're in Minsk licking a herring, the next minute you're running for your life."). In the next, he is commenting in the voice of a social historian (The Ladies' Home Journal replaced...
Mindful that the French had set off an atomic blast in the Sahara a year ago, Dr. Kettlewell last spring collected early-arriving migratory moths and examined them under a Geiger counter. One specimen of Nomophila noctuella, a pale buff moth with a one-inch wingspread, showed a suspiciously high count. He pressed it on X-ray film and found that the radiation was coming not from the moth as a whole but from a single small spot in the thorax...
...propaganda." Finney is the offstage opposite of what he calls "the types who spend their time in theater clubs." He considers friends "a bit of a liability." Part quicksilver and part glunch, his boyish, good-looking face has the story of the Industrial Revolution written on it from pale, porridge cheeks to his shock of sandy hair. He seldom spends more than two nights in the same flat, chain-smokes, sometimes has kippers and champagne for breakfast...
...with man-the spiritualization of the universe. "The labor of seaweed as it concentrates in its tissues the substances dispersed, in infinitesimal quantities, throughout the vast layers of the ocean; the industry of bees as they make honey from the juices scattered in so many flowers-these are but pale images of the continuous process of elaboration which all the forces of the universe undergo in us in order to become spirit...
...that of the other apologies in English literature--Dickens' Riah, DuMaurier's Leah, and Trollope's Trendelssohn--is explained by Rosenberg: "The chief reason . . . is that [the good Jew] has been almost consistently a product of far too obvious and explicit ulterior motives. He bore from the first the pale cast of after-thought. Given the convention, the authors who kept the Jew-villain in circulation created their man with a good deal of spontaneity. The Jew-villain might not be a realistic figure; but within the canons of comedy and melodrama he could give the illusory appearance of being...