Word: coreligionists
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Defender of the Faith concerns a World War II trainee (Jon Korkes) who practices a kind of coreligionist blackmail on his sergeant (David Ackroyd) to secure special privileges for the camp's Jewish contingent. Between the laughs and the plot twists lurks the question of where ethnic solidarity begins and ends. Epstein, the funniest of the tales, focuses on that universal malady, middle age. Epstein's morale has drooped in exact ratio to the sag of his wife Goldie's breasts. In the title role, Lou Jacobi, who looks rather like a Levantine Walter Cronkite, is hilarious...
...these now fully enfranchised Catholics regard their coreligionist in the White House? There is no gloating in the Catholic attitude. Catholics look for no special preferments or special favors, and they will get none...
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