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Marrying outside the faith-even though Moses did it*-has traditionally been frowned upon by devout Jews. Some traditional families still mournfully recite the service for the dead when a rebellious son weds a shiksa. Nonetheless, the number of mixed marriages in the U.S. is at a level that may well threaten the survival of U.S. Jewry as a religious community. The reason: the Jewish partner often abandons his religious practice and raises his children in the faith, or nonfaith, of his spouse...
Prophetically, Moro had once tried to join the Socialist Party but was turned down as being "too Catholic." A devout churchgoer who attends Mass daily, he was born in Lecce in the heel of Italy's boot, studied law at the University of Bari, at 24 began teaching. Entering Parliament in 1946, the newcomer was nicknamed by his colleagues "The Quaker" because of his dour outlook and austere habits. Through sheer diligence, Moro became Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1948, received his own ministry (Justice) in 1955. However, his speeches as a politician sounded as if he were...
...YORK LANDMARKS edited by Alan Burnham. 430 pages. Wesleyan University. $12.50. A photographic survey of the architecturally and historically distinguished buildings of New York as selected by the little band of devout New Yorkers known as the Municipal Art Society. The book's 100-odd photographs, notes Brendan Gill in his foreword, constitute a "veritable Kama Sutra, or manual of instruction, in the wooing of this incomparable city." They also provide a fascinating guide to the paroxysms of borrowed styles-Greek revival, Gothic, Georgian, Italian Renaissance-that afflicted and sometimes ornamented all U.S. cities before they finally achieved...
...column gave her a new leverage in the publicity-oriented world of the jet-setters, and Elsa knew how to use it. In print she staged a schoolgirl crush over the late Aly Khan and an insult-fest with Opera Star Maria Callas. When she suddenly turned into a devout Callas admirer, gossipmongers inevitably asked each other in what language Callas' husband, Industrialist Giovanni Battista Meneghini, had talked to Elsa. Maxwell readers also thrilled to a three-year feud with the Duchess of Windsor, which had its well-publicized happy ending aboard the United States on Easter Sunday...
...shopping bag; for $27 million, he bought control of S. H. Kress & Co., a national chain of 342 variety stores. Genesco, which started as a shoe company and already has 1,500 outlets (including Manhattan's Bonwit Teller), nowadays is as flamboyant as its boss is unpretentious. A devout Baptist deacon, Jarman neither smokes, drinks nor cusses, often begins stockholders meetings with a prayer. He is noted for working his employees hard-and why not? How else will they ever acquire the 30 pairs of shoes that Maxey decrees every well-dressed man should have...