Word: succession
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...somewhat closer to the morality of the average American citizen than it used to be. The Mafiosi always said they were no more corrupt than anyone else, and today more and more people might agree." Barrett notes some disturbing reasons for the Mafia's increasing success: "The public is a willing victim of organized crime-buying black-market cigarettes and participating in illegal gambling. It's also difficult for people to think of some racketeer-who lives in a nice house, has a nice car and sends his kid to Harvard-as the enemy...
...surprisingly, the summit's final communique, issued before hundreds of newsmen and staffers, produced no blueprint for curing the world's economic and political ills. A British official suggested that the conference's greatest success was simply that it had taken place. As Schmidt noted at one point, "We will leave with clearer ideas about each other's problems...
...message. Since becoming boss, Galante has pushed his underlings deeper into drug importing and distribution, long one of the family's most profitable enterprises. He has begun re-establishing the family's Southeast Asian connection, broken by federal narcotics agents six years ago. One sign of his success is the white Asian heroin that has begun reaching New York to compete with the more common Mexican brown...
Still another key to Hair's success is the strength of the two male leads, King and Comins. King captures Berger's dualistic personality, alternating between sneering malevolence and good-natured dynamism. His feeling for his fellow man constantly grapples with his vanity. A more sympathetic character, Comins is just starry-eyed enough for the visionary Claude, who pretends to be a native of Manchester, England, an alien from another planet, and Aquarius, destined for "madness or greatness." Comins' sublime voice is another asset; judging from his performance, it is hard to believe that he was battling a cold last...
Jaynes probably will not surrender his future books to the commercial instincts of a publishing house either, but with the success Origin is enjoying thus far his publisher would not mind. The book is already into a third printing and Houghton-Mifflin cannot keep up with orders for it, a solid indication that the tongue-twisting, technical-sounding title has not deterred many purchasers. Jaynes says he intends to follow his present work with a book on memory, then one proposing a new theory about dreams, and finally one on the consciousness of children. He adds that all of them...