tsuris

A lot of people came alone, and it was interesting to contemplate what tsuris in their lives had brought these successful single yuppies to get out of bed on Sunday morning and go to church by themselves.

To the uninitiated, it's hard to understand why all the tsuris. As a citizen of the Free World, I consider it my God-given right to ignore any newspaper story I damn please.

In addition to "Joe and Paul," the first collection includes "Cockeyed Jenny," "Tsuris, "Minnie the Flapper," "Cut Speech," and "Ariba."

"Devil, Not-Quite-White, Rootless Cosmopolitan Tsuris in Latin America, The Bronx, and the USSR," in Composing Ethnography: Alternative Forms of Qualitative Writing, Carolyn Ellis and Arthur Bochner, eds.

MAJR TSURIS. JOJO MYHONEE, MYSQEEZ, MYLAMBY, MIAMOR, MYCUTEE.

Reading this article ("Tsuris," January/February 2013) evoked a memory of a novel I read about 40 years ago by Wallace Markfield, called To An Early Grave.

In Sunday's New York Times Book Review, in the course of reviewing Toure's new book on "post-black" identity, Orlando Patterson wrote, "This sounds remarkably like a black version of what Alan DershoA-witz calls 'the Tsuris Theory of Jewish Survival,' in which assimilated American Jews desperately need external troubles and imagined enemies to maintain their identity."

Aron's tsuris over his small stature is made worse by his vulgar parents, whose biggest worry is keeping up appearances.

He would visit her backstage as she passed through his hometown of Chicago, touring in such classics as "Yetta, the Bialy Girl" and "A Whole Lot of Tsuris." So enthralled was the young lad by the magic of words that he decided to become a writer, right then and there, during the second act of "Just For a Nosh."

Norman used to say, "They aren't paying me enough to have a bad time." On the set of the movie of Prelude to a Kiss, Norman turned to me and said, "They finally paid me enough--I'm having a bad time." I was paid a large chunk for the movie rights to Prelude, and I certainly earned some of it back in tsuris: the studio cut out the kiss between Peter and the Old Man because preview audiences groaned with discomfort.

In other words, "tsuris is what nudnilcs have and are only too willing to share with others," according to the Everyday Yiddish-English Dictionary.

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O'Neill's Pritchett is rooted in the contempo archetype of the affluent husband and father whose midlife tsuris leads him to divorce and to take a younger, trophy wife.

Much of the media's tsuris is less religious or political than personal.

PATRICIA: After all the tsuris our young souls went through....Your wife should thank me.