Word: yiddishe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broadway debut, will wander innocently through a scrimmage of pimps, hoods and horseplayers in Let It Ride, a musical version of the 1935 George Abbott and John Cecil Holm farce, Three Men on a Horse (Oct. 6). Milk and Honey, set in Israel and involving American tourists, stars Yiddish Comedienne Molly Picon (Oct. 10). How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying may reveal some of the inner secrets of its director, Abe Burrows, riding a score by Guys and Dolls' Frank Loesser (Oct. 14). Man at the crossroads in Africa is the subject of Kwamina, with score...
...street is a long line of hole-in-the-wall shops. From the sidewalks rises a babble, mostly in the English peculiar to New York, but also in Russian, German, Yiddish, Hungarian, Flemish and Dutch. Plainclothesmen unobtrusively roam the block, and inside the buildings armed guards watch passers-by through bulletproof windows. But for all its crowded and wary atmosphere, Manhattan's West 47th Street is the most sparkling street in town because it is the hub of the U.S.'s $500 million annual diamond market...
Settlement by Handshake. So entrenched are relationships in the trade that most transactions are based on simple confidence. Deals involving hundreds of stones are sealed without a count by a handshake and the binding Yiddish phrase: Mazel und brocket (Good luck and blessings) that is used by Jewish and non-Jewish dealers alike the world over...
...comeback it was not Sunset Boulevard. But when Eddie sang People Will Say We're in Love and So Far, the Rodgers and Hammerstein schmalz was chicken fat of the highest quality. He threw Yiddish words into the German version of Mack the Knife and kept a straight face while delivering Never on Sunday in Greek (Spyros Skouras had sent a telegram spelling out the lyrics...
...trained. Each guest was equipped with a headset radio on which he could follow the trial in four languages-French, English, German, Hebrew. If a reporter missed anything, he could refer to a daily mimeographed record of the court proceedings-also in four languages, plus a summary in Yiddish. Even the trial's stern security measures were gracefully applied: one radio newsman who surrendered a broken tape recorder for police inspection got it back repaired...