hutzpa

Its chief asset is Gertrude Berg, a supermom with a heart as big as her hutzpa.

He has hutzpa all right, but always with more than a grain of justification.

All this may be hutzpa, but it works.

If, in the minds of some, hutzpa is the key word to Leonard Bernstein, his father uses another Jewish expression to describe his hopes for his son.

"He has hutzpa," says Rodzinski, and illustrates what he means with the story of how Bernstein, a mere 35, dared to conduct Beethoven's sacrosanct Ninth Symphony with the great Santa Cecilia chorus in Rome.