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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...
...evening soon resumed its ritual course, with police thrusting and parrying in the tear-gas mist along Mt. Auburn Street's club row with crowds of Harvard students and high school street fighters, few of whom were more than vaguely aware of what had started...
Week after week, the networks delayed their annual ritual of announcing the new fall schedules. Was some major policy shift in the offing? Were the congressional hearings on TV violence being taken to heart? Apparently not. When the final schedules were revealed last week, the delays seemed merely a result of the usual intramural poker game. All three networks are holding new hands, but the viewer is getting the same old deal...
Jews in this group may be completely secular?even atheist?or sometimes members of a denomination like Reform Judaism. They simply do not feel that formal ritual or denominational affiliation is crucial. Though a rabbi himself, Philadelphia's Jacob Chinitz insists that "it is membership in the Jewish people that ties a Jew to Judaism, not his membership in a synagogue...
Save for the novelty of its setting, the script would not pass muster on day time television. Occasionally Director Tom Gries (Will Penny) turns his camera onto an Indian ritual, but without any discernible insight or feeling. Miss Racimo passes the time being cuddlesome, and Tabori is convincingly offesive as Danny. Robert Forster's performance is proof positive that, all rumors to the contrary, they're still making cigar-store Indians...