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...ROSTEN'S TREASURY OF JEWISH QUOTATIONS 716 pages. McGraw-Hill...
...subtitle of this vast collection might be: "You don't have to be Jewish to like Leo Rosten." Where else, after all, could the one-liner addict of whatever persuasion be exposed to a barrage of ecstasy that includes the following punches: "May all your teeth drop out, except one-so you should have a permanent toothache." "If you lend someone money, and he avoids you you've gotten off cheap." "A man is not honest just because he has had no chance to steal." "Sleep faster, we need the pillows...
...threads of domestic commercialism and foreign domination are evaluated in Barnouw's "Reckoning." For the former, he quotes Leo Rosten "it seems self-evident that to strain the milk of life through the cheesecloth of advertising must curdle creativity and--more ominously--contaminate truth." For the latter, he states: "The notion that America needs an assortment of...false faces for different purposes is a cold-war heritage that could be usefully abandoned...(also) it has involved large investments of public funds in broadcasting ventures...It is significant that countries which have become important bases for American propaganda transmitters include Portugal...
...Joys of Yiddish, Rosten...
...makes me wonder how you were ever admitted into Columbia. You confuse rhetoric with reasoning. Assertions are not facts. Passion is no substitute for knowledge. Slogans are not solutions. Your idealism takes no brains. And when you dismiss our differences with contempt, you become contemptible. Very sincerely yours, LEO ROSTEN...