Word: pushcart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been imported from a Catskills road company of Fiddler on the Roof. His gestures might have been modelled on Menasha Skulnik's, his lines threaten to slip into Yiddish, and the "nu's" and the "oy's" and the Diaspora world-weariness almost crown Beckett the prince of pushcart playwrights...
Tough Fellow. Challenges have never been unwelcome or unfamiliar to Goldstein. The son of a Ukrainian immigrant who sold fruits and vegetables from a pushcart on New York's Lower East Side, Goldstein spoke only Yiddish at home since his parents could not speak English. He mastered English so well, however, that he earned high marks at C.C.N.Y. and later at Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the law journal. After graduation, he served in the Army as a demolitions specialist and counterintelligence agent in Europe. Goldstein later clerked for U.S. Circuit Judge David Bazelon, then...