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...disputes the traditional view that organized crime is a tightly disciplined structure dedicated to evil. As an example of the beneficial effects of organized crime, Father Gigante has said that the only way his father could get money to pay for an operation was to go to a loan shark...
...Italians have concluded that, far from being a bad force, organized crime actually provides services to impoverished communities. As one Italian American Civil Rights League member said to me, "What's wrong with numbers and gambling? If people want to gamble we give them an opportunity. As for loan sharking, many people feel uneasy about going to banks and couldn't get loans even if they wanted to. For every case you hear of a loan shark breaking a guy's arm, there are a thousand cases of loan sharks helping businessmen and poor people out of tight situations...
...Benchley's fictional conceit that a Great White Shark of mythic size and ferocity has veered out of its normal deepwater territory and begun to pot-hunt off the swimming beach at Amity, L.I. The creature kills a young woman who is swimming alone at night. When bits of her body wash ashore the next morning, there is no mistaking what has happened, but the town fathers persuade Police Chief Martin Brody not to close the beaches. After all, it is the beginning of the tourist season, rentals are lag ging anyway, and with luck the thing will rumble...
Alas for town-fatherhood, vexed like all fatherhood. The shark continues to lurk near Amity, snapping up summer people like a trout after May flies, and there go the old property values. Chief Brody does not much like summer people, or the little crocodiles they wear on their tennis shirts, but he decides to hunt the fish...
...screen, believe it or not--into a landscape where society has eroded nature's richness. No one gives him directions. No one gives him a hitch. He trudges on and on, encountering symbol-people on the way--such as a loud, precocious little boy complaining because a card shark, that is, society, is giving him a bum deal...