Word: yiddishe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stop anything; without music, I mean I don't think there'd be life-there would be no world.'' A Times Square pitchman selling a pen: "If my physiognomy is not too conspicuous to be comprehended, I'm gonna clarify . . . You can write Yiddish, you can write English, you can print, you can sketch with this very same...
...five-hour walk among the city's "few central brick structures" and along the "muddy lanes" beyond, Yiddish-speaking Reporter Frankel "heard no more than four or five Yiddish conversations." He found Yiddish disappearing from the street signs, as it has already from the schools and the movies...
...visitor," wrote Frankel, "notes the absence of youngsters, at the movies and in the streets, even before he hears a sociological explanation for their exodus: they aspire to assimilation, to opportunity alongside the Russians. They might rebel against Yiddish culture even if it were sanctioned...
...Tell the old man you're sick of staying at home. Get out on the town. Enjoy music, live music!" So bubbled Jackie Gleason, the Brooklyn boulevardier, on TV and radio last week, seconded by Jimmy Durante and Judy Holliday. In English, Spanish, Yiddish and Italian, 19 New-York newspapers were sprinkled with a dozen other catchy ads. Sample: a migraine victim with arrows piercing his skull and the caption. "Cure for short temper, nagging headache, shattered nerves, daily depression-Get Live Music...
Though the play is unpretentious, its genuineness has 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 warmth and honesty of Schulman's writing...