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...black preacher's blurry blend of ego and principle presents the conventional Mondale with a most unconventional problem. A practitioner of political compromise, Mondale frequently asks reporters who have covered Jackson, "What does Jesse want?" The larger issue of dealing with a fervent black movement seems to elude him. Jackson, who took black votes from Mondale in the primaries but whose followers are vital to Mondale's chances in November, must be subtly massaged. He cannot be assuaged with something like a promise of a Cabinet post or an ambassadorship...
...result is a some times unwieldy mélange of docudrama, sociological argument, fragmented monologues and musical interludes. This stylization moves the play closer to Brechtian irony than to Greek tragedy. Jones, played with grim conviction by Richard Kneeland, is not a satanic Pied Piper but a drug-addicted preacher with delusions of grandeur. His followers are not pathetic flotsam but all too recognizable products of the '60s: a rebellious flower child, a medical student avoiding the Army, a socially concerned lawyer. "We were 913 individuals," one proclaims to the audience at the end. The message comes through with...
...running out of time and states in which to pare it down. Hart did run slightly ahead of Mondale in Louisiana, which apportioned 57 of its total of 68 delegates in a primary Saturday, but it did him no good-because both ran far behind Jackson. The fiery preacher put on a stunning performance, inspiring blacks to vote at a rate about double that of whites. Final figures showed Jackson winning a thumping 42% of the vote, Hart 25%, Mondale...
...sounded like a death threat against a black reporter. Mondale asserted that "what Farrakhan said was poison," and Hart wondered why the Muslim had not been subjected to criminal prosecution.* Jackson replied that he had "disassociated myself from the message but not from the messenger" and spoke in a preacher's tones of "forgiveness...
...aide pointed to the spot where the candidate would stand and shouted, "Rainbow, rainbow!" It was a signal to another assistant to plunge into the predominantly black throng and look for whites who could be brought up front to stand near Jackson, so that photographs would show the preacher as leader of a multiracial rainbow coalition...