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Volunteer Cuckold. Elected and appointed officials make up New York's temporary government. This feeble mechanism is no match for the permanent government: bankers, builders, lawyer-fixers, back-room pols, landlords, union leaders. Larger commercial banks profited merrily for years in the city bond trade, both as underwriters and as holders of securities. When trouble surfaced, they quietly dumped the paper. Savings institutions redlined neighborhood after neighborhood, exporting loans to suburbia instead of reinvesting in the city...
...even skeptical. Substandard hyperbole ("We realized that behind almost every horror stood a banker") and doctrinaire populism ("They are making a desert and calling it a balanced budget") further reduce the authors' credibility. Invective obscures insight. John Lindsay was not merely an inadequate mayor but "a volunteer cuckold of the permanent government." The clubhouse crowd is condemned as "back-room dreck," though in fact it produces some good administrators...
...year-old professor of humanities on a methadone maintenance program in a prison where he is serving ten years for fratricide. That is just the beginning. There are Farragut's neighbors in cell block F, with names like Chicken No. 2, Bumpo, the Stone, the Cuckold, Ransome and Tennis, who on the outside was Lloyd Haversham Jr., two-time winner of the Spartanburg doubles. His crime was "a clerical error in banking...
...best workers in the penal system are classified as rockets and the slower ones, progressively, as airplanes, locomotives, automobiles, bicycles and lastly, ox carts. Pasqualini recalls one worker who was demoted to the status of a turtle, which is not only slow, but the traditional Chinese symbol of a cuckold. However, pushed a little further, this preoccupation with mechanical efficiency leads to a demand for the man to emulate the machine...
...just as Parnell (with Kitty as intermediary) seemed to be charming Gladstone and the Liberals into acceding to Irish nationalist terms for home rule, Willie O'Shea brought suit for divorce. This, after pretending ignorance for almost ten years while three children were fathered by Parnell. When the cuckold finally brought down his house on himself, he also brought it down on his rival. Parnell's exertions to save his discredited leadership failed miserably, and soon eroded his health. "The most famous adulterer of the century," as a Methodist minister of the time put it, died in Kitty...