Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lucky coincidence, says Movie Producer Martin Gosch, that The Godfather has burst upon the movie-going world just ten years after Lucky Luciano gasped his last in the Naples airport. When Lucky suffered his fatal coronary, he and Gosch were discussing a movie of the mobster's life-a movie that Gosch agreed would not be made for ten years. Now the ten years are up and Gosch plans to start shooting next year. "This man was No. 1, the kingpin, probably one of the most complex personalities that ever lived," he says. "He designed the rackets...
...kicks (pontapes) or straight jabs (pisadas). Tripping is a favorite tactic; so is the flying dropkick (voo de morsego) that norteamericano wrestlers love. Cartwheels are often used. One of the deadliest blows is the cabecada, a flying head butt to the solar plexus that, if properly delivered, can be fatal...
...everyone would ultimately see the wisdom of their position. In so abdicating, they repeated a central mistake of 1970; they assumed that the correct political road would inevitably point its own way. The result was almost pre-ordained; the crucial proposal passed at the Thursday night meeting contained the fatal passage about "encouraging" everyone to stay away from class. And then, the Tuesday night meeting was consumed with theological disputes about whether we should all continue the "strike." The absurdity of the meeting reached high pitch when the sponsor of a proposal "to end the boycott of classes" announced that...
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...
...pushes someone into suicide. Meerloo cites an engineer who had struggled "all his life with a harsh, domineering and alcoholic father." On a final visit, he took along a bottle of barbiturates, suggesting that they could "cure" his father's addiction. In combination with alcohol, the prescription was fatal...