Word: yenta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deli will also play the role of yenta on alternate weekends, Weiss Lawrence will "talk to those who are really having problems about the whole thing," said Weiss...
...other tales, a couple trying to submerge their heritage in a Wasp suburb are threatened by an old yenta; if they do not give money to her charities, she will expose them to the smothering tolerance and curiosity of the Christian community. "On Passover," she warns, "you will be the Jew on the fellowship committee; you will explain in the schools, you will explain in the churches, you will bare your souls in the Cultural Exchange Fellowship of the Women's Auxiliaries ..." And a mother meditates caustically on the thought processes of her two teen-age children: "Instant communication...