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Marrying outside your religion??is no big deal anymore. Neither is marrying someone of a completely different generation. And now that something like 4% of all marriages are interracial, not even your grandparents will get lathered up if you marry someone of another color. But as the old prohibitions fall away, a new one is rising to take their place. It's a discrimination that's widespread but largely unspoken, causing pain and stress to the affected couples, who often find it hard to talk about, even to each other. I'm talking, of course, about marrying outside your looks...
...Brannack, a huge (200 Ibs. plus), cheery, moonfaced Irishwoman who relished a joke even more than her husband did?except perhaps when Joey the ram, the family's pet goat, butted her through a glass door. Mrs. Skakel was in dead earnest about only one thing ?her religion???and her earnestness there was more than a match for George Skakel's casual Protestantism. She saw to it that all the children were enrolled in parochial schools and, from the age of four onward, went to Mass daily...
...politics; he could also wield considerable influence in the selection of the G.O.P. presidential candidate in 1968?and beyond. Though he is cagey enough not to commit himself so soon, he leans toward Michigan's George Romney for '68. Since more Negroes could come to resent Romney's Mormon religion???which still has an archaic tenet that denies the "priesthood" to Negroes?Brooke would be a valuable ally in defending the Michigan Governor's liberal record on racial issues...
Here, obviously, is a Clémenceau "just talking," smiting the conversational anvil for the fun of seeing sparks fly. Of Greece?the grand, spiritual inspiration of Clémenceau's life, almost his religion??? Clémenceau could say to Martet in humorous vein...
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