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...improvisations were passionate and bawdy, but so charming that even Church-supported French nobility were seduced into laughter. Impresario Flaminio Scala concocted such a dynamic group by painstakingly typecasting each member perfectly. So all they needed to do--Armanda the grotesque but sharp-witted dwarf, Pantalone the cross miserly Jew, Dottore the pompous doctor of quackery, Brighella the spiteful gadfly, and the others--was get up on stage and play themselves to the hilt...
...although none of Auchincloss's partners is a Jew, New York has its share of them and they are fairly important. Meritocracy has, in a word, prevailed (and, most likely, was always, an element in the New York equation). And New York has, incidentally, become less important to the country than it once was. The world's work is no longer done in the city, and the work done in Auchincloss's fictional law firm involves mostly trusts, estates, and corporate clients. It is very profitable, and it permits a group of people to lead very comfortable lives, but ultimately...
...time when Israel needs a broad consensus government to carry out the delicate peace talks in Geneva, Labor's traditional ally, the National Religious Party (ten Knesset seats), refused to join Mrs. Meir because of a theological dispute over the definition of who is a Jew. The Religious Party demanded that Labor support a change in the Law of Return* under which Israel would refuse to recognize conversions to Judaism that had not followed Orthodox rites, an action that would bring into question the religious and legal status of many Israelis...
...Which states that any Jew is automatically eligible for Israeli citizenship...
...Jew, I hold the right to life of an innocent just as sacred as any Catholic...