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Reuben Greenberg, 40, Charleston. Upon arriving in 1982 in tradition-bound Charleston, S.C., Greenberg had three things going against him. He was black. He was an outsider, from the Florida department of law enforcement. And he was a practicing Jew, the great-grandson of a white Jewish Texas farmer and his black wife. In less than a month he had created several new obstacles to his popularity in the department: a firm order forbidding the unnecessary use of force, followed by a volley of other new regulations that now fill a 3-in.- thick handbook...
...Security Council, the figure who stood out was Ambassador Arthur Goldberg, the American permanent representative, our vigorous and formidable opponent. Fedorenko and others in our delegation referred to him as a "slick / Jew who could fool the devil himself." But while they disparaged him, they envied his talents...
Perphas my hope is due to the fact that I am much older than the Reverend Jackson. This allow me to remember that a Boston Jew, Walter Beringer, was once president of the local chapter of the Urban League...
...play opens, we see Shylock (Jon King)--in wheelchair, tuxedo and yarmulke--bounded off the dark stage by an enraged mob shouting "Kill the Jew." The lights go up to reveal an exquisite set, half of which is an elaborate nightclub (owned by Shylock, the program says), complete with bar and black-and-white checkered dance floor. The other half is Portia's plush, art-deco apartment. When the Keezers-clad cast breezes in, singing a hearty rendition of "Happy Days are Here Again," we are firmly placed in the '20s, when, we are to assume, everybody wore tuxedos...
...desperate when he calls for "revenge," and a maligned and wronged father when persecuted by the younger generation. But, why is he in an electric wheelchair, aside from its being a useful prop with which to propel him around the stage? Shylock is handicapped enough by being a Jew in a Christian society, and the '20s setting emphasizes that such prejudices are universal in time. But this added handicap is distracting: when he suddenly rumps out of the chair during the "revenge" speech, the audience doesn't know whether it is meant to be poignant...