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Jewish strategy aside, Jack Frank, a Chicago Orthodox rabbi with a doctorate in pastoral counseling, questions the wisdom of intermarriages: "It's difficult enough to merge two individuals in a good marriage when their values and customs are the same." Often, he says, couples refuse to face the reality that when the first child is born, in effect "one member of the couple has to give up his religion...
...blunt, Sasso is neither intellectual nor especially articulate. He is a coalition builder who knows when and how to compromise. Unlike Dukakis, he reaches out to people, and people respond. He engenders loyalty and returns it. The civic-minded Dukakis sometimes gives the impression that he considers himself too good for politics. "What Sasso brought to Dukakis," says Paul Pezzella, the campaign's Florida director, "was the conviction that good government and good politics are one and the same...
...also stoked the Governor's presidential ambitions, persuading him in 1986 to make the race and drafting a comprehensive plan, complete with themes -- good jobs at good wages, the Massachusetts Miracle -- that would steer Dukakis through the primaries. When Sasso resigned a year ago -- for not telling Dukakis that he had been responsible for sending reporters an attack video against Joe Biden -- even Dukakis underestimated how crippling the loss would be. The primary campaign, after a three-week dip, chugged along according to Sasso's old game plan. It was as if the Celtics had lost Larry Bird...
...Davidson, and to Joseph Papp, whose Public Theater in Manhattan is a similar urban complex. But Bushnell has fashioned an institution all its own, against perhaps tougher odds than faced either of the others. Like the Public, the L.A.T.C. tends to excuse artistic lapses on the grounds of good intentions: its present offering of a black South African tract, Bopha!, performed by the authors, is exuberant but crude. The other show now running, however -- the debut of Kingfish by local writer Marlane Meyer -- is an adroitly staged, intelligently acted and gut-thumping depiction of mankind at its most predatory...
...waving a Korean flag. The same versatile character had been sighted just a day before at the Hanyang University gymnasium waving a Japanese flag. That time he had been surrounded by four mild-mannered Japanese matrons who were waving their own flags of the Rising Sun and calling out "Good luck! Good luck!" to the Japanese volleyball team. As soon as the unprepossessing quintet finished their cheer, a thunderous chant arose from two separate sections of the stadium: "U.S.A. ! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" The matrons looked perturbed. "It's a little frightening, isn't it?" said one. Undeterred, they bravely waved their...