Word: underworlders
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...progress of the play is like the scrubbing away of a painting to reveal an underpainting. On the surface, a court of justices in a nameless city and country is being investigated for harboring a "pustule of leprosy." One of the justices has made himself an accomplice of an underworld moneybags, and this leper-judge has infected and diseased the whole process of justice. One clever judge, Cust, steers suspicion toward Vanan, the aging chief of the court. Vanan is innocent; yet he is shattered and acts guilty. As the investigation goes on, Cust analyzes the inner torment and Luciferian...
Even worse than the stale underworld gossip being mouthed by Valachi was the fact that he got mixed up on names and places...
...from the Mafia said he was indeed weary. In fact, Valachi's act was introduced-with some pride-by none other than Bobby Kennedy, Attorney General of the U.S. Boasted Bobby: "For the first time an insider, a knowledgeable member of the racketeering hierarchy, has broken the underworld's code of silence...
...Valachi's testimony does nothing else, it has already produced a shocking commentary on the underworld jungle in the U.S. prison system. When Joe went to the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary on a narcotics conviction in 1960, the Cosa Nostra "boss of bosses" Vito Genovese, a prisoner, was there too. Valachi said Genovese arranged for them to be cellmates. One night in their cell Genovese said to Valachi...
...introduction, Novelist Evelyn Waugh deftly sums up Carson's rare special quality: "His associates are almost all of the underworld; his own condition is precarious; his morality, as he describes it, is extremely loose; but he betrays no resentment or scorn of those whose habits are more orderly. He is a hedonist and a sensualist joyfully celebrating the huge variety of life. There is something of Norman Douglas in him, something of Firbank, nothing at all of the 'sick' or the 'beat...