Word: shrugged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hire (69¢). Under Nasser's socialism, the fellah no longer has to make obeisance to the local pasha; instead, he is cheated by the corrupt administrator appointed by Cairo. Nasser's revolution, which began with bright hopes, is dismissed, like everything else in Egypt, with "ma-'alesh," a verbal shrug meaning roughly that nothing can be done about...
...ordinary soldiers" among Columbia's warriors. He admits to some concern that "I occasionally get criticized for exploiting the movement and for allowing myself to spend time being co-opted by the mass media." What if the system makes him rich? His usual grin, a shrug of the shoulders, pause: "Eh . . . there it is." He is confident that wealth will not blunt his outrage. "I'm not convinced yet that I'm even a writer," he says. "But if I am, hopefully, I can be more effective doing that than as one more kid picketing. And remember...
...banana peel. He has appeared in short stories (The Magic Barrel) and novels (A New Life, The Fixer). The Malamud man wobbles between laughter and tears. One minute he can be all suffering profile, squirming against his private cross. The next minute one eye winks, his shoulders shrug, his mouth gives a little downward grimace, and out comes the self-mocking voice of a Jewish comedian: "Oy, this hurts...
...significant section of the faculty or student body. He did not recognize the yearning for change within his own institution. Controversy became inevitable as he allowed relations with the surrounding Harlem community to deteriorate and brashly involved the university in backing an unproven cigarette filter. He tended to shrug off all criticism of Columbia's ties with military research, failed to perceive the extent of faculty and student discontent early enough to deal with it, and finally called in the police to regain control of his campus...
...most revered elder statesman of what had once been Europe's proudest scientific establishment. He collected many awards, including a Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of fission. But he always accepted such honors with characteristic humility. Visiting an atomic reactor or nuclear power station, he would shrug modestly: "It has all been the work of others." In a soon-to-be-published 300-page memoir, he brushed off his historic work in fewer than five pages. Last week, at the age of 89, the father of fission died peacefully in his beloved Göttingen...