Word: jacobe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Odets was 28 when he wrote Awake and Sing!, he could grant only his older characters credibility. As Bessie, Nancy Marchand has a despairing authority, and as her brother Morty, Michael Lombard combines unctuous self-regard and bone-deep insecurity. As the old, unrepentant radical Jacob, Paul Sparer provides a sense of guttering energy that is supposed to illuminate the hopes of the young. It does nothing of the kind. Brother and sister, husband and lover all perform in a declamatory style more appropriate to pageants than to plays. Moreover, Theodore Mann's direction takes the Bergers...
...Inventors are all alike," said Jacob Rabinow, a man with 218 patents. "They all have a million-dollar idea, which is a good place to start...
...according to the National Urban League's annual survey, "The State of Black America," released last week, these were the exceptions in a year otherwise notable for its stunning lack of progress for most of the country's 28 million blacks. Declared Urban League President John E. Jacob: "Black America is in desperate straits...
...percentage of black families at or below the Government's official poverty line - $9,862 for a family of four-was almost three times that of whites, the worst rate since 1967. Half of all black children live in families with incomes below the poverty line. Black America, Jacob said, remains "buried in a depression of crushing proportions...
...hall, Humphreyesque training that Mondale and others boast. He has troubles appealing to the traditional Democratic constituencies of minorities and labor. If anything, The Right Staff clearly separates the appearance of that admirable trait from its actual presence. And is widens the gap in the image of John Glenn. Jacob M. Schlesinger