Word: underworlders
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Questions about his underworld life were dismissed by Westchester County Elementary Schoolteacher Dick Capazzola, one of the diners. Said Capazzola: "If Joe's guilty of all they say, they ought to make him Secretary of State at least, because he's too smart for them to prove anything...
...accept an appointment from Democratic Governor Herbert H. Lehman as a special prosecutor to attack racketeers. He badgered rackets victims into testifying against their tormentors by threatening them with income tax and contempt of court charges, and was able to boast that he "never lost a witness" to underworld retribution. He rarely lost a case, either: at one point he ran up 72 convictions in 73 trials...
...they are 95% accurate," says Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney Benjamin Schmier. "You go out into the hallways during a courtroom recess and hear them discussing cases. You'd think you were listening to a Harvard professor. A couple of months ago, I had a prosecution witness from the underworld who I thought had been terrific. I asked the buffs, and they said they didn't believe him. Sure enough, the defendant was acquitted...
...history, a landing on the moon," and the event had nothing more to show for itself than machines and technicians whose personalities were wedded to the "absolute computer of the corporation." Faced with such a banality of facts and resolved to restore "magic psyche and the spirits of the underworld" to the venture, Mailer, calling himself Aquarius and summoning the aeronautical engineering of his undergraduate days, takes recourse to his senses to give us a dazzling report not only on what he observes-the astronauts, the launch, the press conferences. Werner Ven Braun, and the whole world of NASA...
Korty's dialectic is readily apparent: The sailor, when confronted with repressive society, ships out to another port. Like the gangster in underworld folklore, he does not wish to change society, for it conveniently embodies all the ideals which he thrives on battling-ideals which he eventually wishes to return to. His place outside society is an excuse for license. His daughter and her friends take a more responsible approach to preserving personal sanctity, attempting to get close to the land and to social basics by living on a totally personal level with their neighbors and environs...