Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tactics they used were at the same time crude and organized. Money was spent freely. The owner of a large racetrack buttonholed vacillating legislators, presumably offering rewards (campaign contributions) in return for support of the leaders' candidates--Stanley Steingut, the anti-Wagner leader in Brooklyn, and Jack Bronston of Queens (both, incidentally from New York City, hardly a major concession to upstate interests). One Manhattan legislator reported being offered a campaign contribution and the payment of a primary fight should he switch his allegiance to Steingut. A New York City reformer shifted his support after an organized series of telephone...
...VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Arthur Miller's tragedy of a Brooklyn longshoreman with an incestuous fixation for his niece may be more Freudian than Greek, but it pulses with the fury, pity and seeming inevitability of obsessive self-destruction. Director Ulu Grosbard and an emotionally committed cast have charged this ten-year-old play with electricity and tenderness...
...anti-Wagner uproar could have been heard in Schenectady. "This is a very, very black day in the tradition and history of the legislature!" cried Brooklyn Democrat Irwin Brownstein. "What is happening here wasn't created in the senate. It was in the Governor's office and at Gracie mansion [Wagner's official residence]." Buffalo Democrat Frank Glinski roared: "Hitler burned down the Reichstag because he couldn't get majorities! Somebody may put a match to this place soon, too." All to no avail: with all 25 Republican senators joining 15 Democrats, the senate elected Zaretzki...
Next day, with 46 Republicans joining 35 Democrats, the assembly elected Wagner Man Travia as speaker. Again there were shouts of protest. Complained Brooklyn Democrat Bertram Podell: "He had the votes right in his pocket-the fellow down in city hall. It's a disgrace." Shouted another: "What you Republicans are doing is evil! It's wrong! It's immoral!" When Travia ascended to the speaker's rostrum, many anti-Wagner Democrats turned their backs on him; his main rival, Brooklyn's Stanley Steingut, stalked out without pausing to offer congratulations...
Singular Ginger. The novelist who is most truly black and funny about sex and death is James Patrick ("Mike") Donleavy, 42, who was born in Brooklyn, educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and now divides his time between London and the Isle of Man. Donleavy succeeds better than any of the others in combining the age-old immediacy of priapic comedy with an excruciatingly contemporary sense of human absurdity. He might best be described as a uniquely modern Aristophanist with an existential horror of death...