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Screenplay by WALDO SALT...
Italians, however, might-perhaps ought-to take special offense. Jimmy Breslin's comic novel recorded the exploits of a sad-sack mob of Brooklyn hoods with good-humored scorn. Waldo Salt's chaotic script turns Breslin's characters, which were already caricatures, into vicious racial stereotypes. Everyone is either venal, murderous, retarded or deformed; and since they are almost all Italians, one might be tempted to conclude that everyone whose ancestors were born between Sicily and Milan is a feeble-minded racketeer...
...Ralph Waldo Ellison, L.H.D., novelist. He has fashioned a mighty allegory of the central conflict of our age. The terrors and exaltation of black existence in an unseeing white universe have the force and violent conviction of Melville's searing voyage in search of a phantom whale-which is everyman's ordeal...
Among the famous recipients of the Bowdoin Prize are Ralth Waldo Emerson, Class of 1821, Richard Henry Dana, Class of 1851, and Nathan M. Pusey...
...problem, if not a disease, is at least as old as the Renaissance. One deplores with Anderson that "we have fallen out of love with society on this continent." But it is only another form of self-obsession to put the blame on a three-headed monster ego named Waldo Whitman James. · Melvin Maddocks