Word: desapio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Slightly hunched, his mustache twitching with delight at his guile, Gitter simply oozes charm, duplicity and cunning. At the prospect of murder, his eyebrows wiggle and his voice rises to an ecstatic pitch. He combines the avariciousness of a Jewish pawn-shop broker with the greasiness of a Carmine DeSapio...
...most dramatic part of his career came after his retirement from the Senate in 1957, when he and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt spearheaded the drive 'to reform New York's Democratic Party. In 1961, at the age of 33, he campaigned actively against Carmine DeSapio and the other party bossed, speaking from sound trucks and touring the city on foot in the middle of a hot summer. Even after achieving victory, he continued to guide New York's reform movement and act as the state's political conscience until his death...
After debating James Wilson, co-author of City Politics, Carmine DeSapio supposedly said, "The professors have really come down to earth." Applied to Banfield and Wilson, DeSapio's observation is obviously true; these two Harvard professors display a politician's knowledge of their subject...
...major flaw in City Politics results from the size of the authors' task. In order to make general observations about all cities they have discussed exciting figures such as Laguardia, Curley, Moses, Hague, Murphy, and DeSapio only as examples of various aspects of politics, not as individuals. Not only are these men interesting, but they have also assumed essential roles in determining the political processes of their cities. In attempting to deal with all cities, Banfield and Wilson have distilled away an essential ingredient of urban politics: the ability of individual politicians to change the political nature of their...
About every ten year, Carmine DeSapio observed yesterday, political winds in a city tend to blow in strange directions, and citizens get an urge to vote against the established leadership, whatever the issues...