Word: sicilianism
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Bonanno is better known as "Joe Bananas," the gangster overlord of a New York Cosa Nostra "family." A Sicilian-born Mafioso who entered the U.S. illegally in 1924, Bonanno rose to a seat on the twelve-man "Grand Council" of organized crime. Though he has been semiretired as an active hoodlum since 1964, he is now embroiled in what has come to be known as "the Bananas war" -a death struggle between rival gangs that reaches from Joe's Brooklyn turf to Tucson's tree-lined pleasances. Open hostilities in the battle to succeed Joe as head...
...take on Republican Senator Kenneth Keating. The avuncular, popular incumbent accused the Kennedy people of distorting his record, and the nonpartisan Fair Campaign Practices Committee sided with Keating. It seemed of a piece with Kennedy's background: his brief stint with Joe McCarthy; the prosecutor's mentality and Sicilian yen for vendetta; the management of Jack's 1960 campaign, in which lovable Hubert Humphrey had been driven from the race and humiliated. Now, in New York, "carpetbagging" and dirty pool. But he went on to win, and to capture uneasy primacy in the party...
...scarred by riot in 1966, to the hippie enclave of Haight-Ashbury, from the convoluted alleys of Chinatown to the psychedelic strip-and-clip joints of North Beach, encompassing en route labor unions, symphony lovers and Mayor Joseph L. (for Lawrence) Alioto, 52, the millionaire son of an immigrant Sicilian fisherman.* Last week, a scant 2½ months after assuming office, Joe Alioto was well on the way to opening the Golden Gate for an array of hyperkinetic urban programs...
...prosperous to care much about Communist chimeras, yet just bothered enough to believe that a change of government might be good. In recent weeks, students protesting overcrowded classrooms have closed down or paralyzed eleven Italian universities, and Roman students waged a pitched battle with police that left hundreds wounded. Sicilian earthquake victims marched through the capital's streets in anger against the government's delay in providing relief. Every major Italian city was hit this month by massive walkouts of workers...
...Mailer's play The Deer Park was running off-Broadway. Mailer and a few of the actors got into the habit of boozing together in a Greenwich Village restaurant after performances. As boys will, they fell into a game of let's pretend. They pretended they were Sicilian gangsters, and they gave themselves names-Cameo, Twenty Years, The Prince (Mailer, of course)-and they talked tough and dirty at each other night after night. It was all such fun that Mailer laid out $1,500, moved his make-believe Mafiosos into a large empty office, supplied them with...