Word: cains
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cain...
While homicide is as old as Cain, Mafia killings have a style all their own. They are the blood-feud eruptions of one of the nation's strangest and most powerful subcultures, and are carried out with an almost ritual quality. They are unlike fatal quarrels of husband and wife, random slaughter in delicatessen holdups and bar brawls, and the other killings that constitute the vast majority of murders in the U.S. Instead, the Mafia practices a drama of implacable tribal will: just as Clausewitz defined war as foreign policy by other means, La Cosa Nostra regards murder...
Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler reflected gloomily that killing is "one of the luxuries. No wonder that princes had so long reserved the right to murder with impunity." Yet there has always been a democracy of homicide. Ever since Cain slew Abel, murder has been a classless crime. The East Harlem father who hurls his children from the roof is paralleled across the Hudson in the affluent New Jersey suburbs: a Westfield insurance salesman named John List was indicted last winter on a charge of shooting his wife, mother and three children and ranging four of the bodies side...
...Generation of Vipers (1942): "I give you mom. I give you the destroying mother ... I give you the woman in pants, and the new religion: she-popery. I give you Pandora. I give you Proserpine, the Queen of Hell. The five-and-ten-cent-store Lilith, the mother of Cain, the black widow who is poisonous and eats her mate, and I designate at the bottom of your program the grand finale of all soap operas: the mother of America's Cinderella." It is a mark of the wondrous sea change of public attitudes that in a scant three...
...records in several cities, and kidnap Henry Kissinger to use as a hostage until their demands to end the Viet Nam War were met. The other defendants are: Sister Elizabeth McAlister, 32, an intense, intelligent nun of the order of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary; Mary Cain Scoblick, 33, a former nun, and her husband, Anthony, a priest; Eqbal Ahmad, 41, a fellow at the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs in Chicago; and Baltimore Ghetto Priests Neil McLaughlin, 31, and Joseph Wenderoth...