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What made it a travesty, indeed a tragedy, is that thousands upon thousands of Yiddish speakers, many of them elderly and poor, remained uncounted, and thus have fallen “between the cracks,” so to speak, with grave political, social, and economic consequences.
Although Dr. Orne insisted that Sexton had given him permission to do what he thought appropriate with the tapes, his colleagues howled that he had made a travesty of doctor-patient confidentiality, Sexton's wishes be damned.
The rooster crows cock-a-doodle-doo , which for anyone who has spent time on a farm is a sad travesty of the deep, throaty ur-ur-ur-ur-urrh!
The conventional wisdom is correct: The Sopranos deserved to win pretty much every award, and the fact that it got only two is a travesty, to the degree that Emmy injustice can be a travesty.
But this denigration alone would not make the Yiddish Guide the travesty it is.