Word: schlemieled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Menasha Skulnik, seventyish, irrepressible Yiddish comedian and Broadway actor (The Fifth Season, The Flowering Peach, The Zulu and the Zayda) for 60 years; in Manhattan. His explanation for his popularity: "People laugh not from the jokes but from the situations I am in. I play the little guy -the schlemiel-against the world...
...every turn in the Peace Corps, as victims of the Machine no less than himself. His condemnation of institutions rather than men may be equivocating from a radical's point of view. But the multi-dimensionality of the officials in Cowan's account (like Erich Hofmann, the "poor schlemiel of an ex-Luftwasfe pilot" who wanted to squelch all boat-rocking at least until he secured his U.S. citizenship) underlines the truth that the tragedy of America admits of few clear villains. In like manner, Cowan understands that the shocking racism of many Peace Corps volunteers (one wanted to enlist...