Word: warmth
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...dedicated to the proposition that women are to be loved, vodka is to be drunk, war is to be lived and honor is to be died for -preferably all in the same moment. Together they make a team whose picaresque adventures betray a desperation cloaked in human warmth, a cry of anger hidden in humor...
Though the play is unpretentious, its genuineness had led Maurice Schwartz, our foremost Yiddish actor-producer, to turn it into a Yiddish musical for the coming season. One cannot help but recognize the blazing warmth and honesty of Schulman's writing...
...peppier package. Officially measuring two inches shorter than Miss U.S.A. and looking even less than that, she made no attempt to disguise the fact that she measured 35½-23½-35½ and was proud of it. She was poised, but it was poise with a background warmth. "She has nothing but love in her heart for the man she will some day marry," said her mother, and the inner fires certainly impressed the judges...
...headed east across town, past the filthy, begrimed tenement brownstones where families loiter on the front stoops in the evening warmth, through the smelly, crowded section east of Park Avenue and over to East End Avenue. East River Drive was deserted. But near by, lolling against a slum tenement, were 25 boys and about ten girls, mostly Italian...
...Goldfine was a personable and fast-rising businessman. Adams was fast-rising too, not in bank accounts but in status. To Goldfine, money alone did not bring status, but he spent freely, gave openly. Adams was flattered by the attention; his bedrock New England heart was moved by the warmth and yearnings of an "immigrant" who wanted friendship. The Adamses and the Goldfines drew together. When Goldfine's son Solomon drifted from his studies at Dartmouth, it was Dutch Uncle Sherman who sternly tugged him back to berth; at Solomon's wedding in Chicago, the Adamses were honored...