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Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler reflected gloomily that killing is "one of the luxuries. No wonder that princes had so long reserved the right to murder with impunity." Yet there has always been a democracy of homicide. Ever since Cain slew Abel, murder has been a classless crime. The East Harlem father who hurls his children from the roof is paralleled across the Hudson in the affluent New Jersey suburbs: a Westfield insurance salesman named John List was indicted last winter on a charge of shooting his wife, mother and three children and ranging four of the bodies side...
...skirt the weak spots, they are in fact eager collaborators. Nonetheless, the cast is a delight from beginning to end, able to sustain the serious numbers as well as to excell in the comic ones--and there is more real humor in this show than in a whole slew of plays by Neil Simon...
...McCormack into an influence-peddler's paradise; in Manhattan. When indicted in 1970, Voloshen initially denied that he had illegally used his longtime friendship with the Speaker to obtain favors for clients. The dapper door opener, a Maryland attorney with New York offices, later pleaded guilty to a slew of offenses, all committed without McCormack's knowledge. Among the transgressions: lobbying to obtain reduced sentences for convicted racketeers. Because he cooperated with authorities, Voloshen was given a suspended sentence and fined a mere $10,000-$40,000 less than the fixer's fee he sometimes charged...
Apolitical. Typical of the elections was the campaigning in the North End, one of the nation's most colorful and tightly knit communities. One victorious candidate, Ted Tomasone, a clerk in the Boston municipal criminal court, had a few posters and a slew of tiny cards printed. Other candidates contented themselves with Magic Marker signs and mimeographed slips reminiscent of student council elections. The atmosphere was distinctly nonpartisan; most of the loudspeaker cars simply urged the people to get out and vote...
...Post almost frighteningly familiar. Artist Norman Rockwell didn't do the cover (even though he is still active at 77), but he is on it, puffing his pipe and preparing to paint a Post delivery boy. Inside, there is an eight-page salute to Rockwell, together with a slew of the original Post's oldfashioned, gray "narrative illustrations," which made it seem as if every scene were taking place in an incipient thunderstorm. Other old standbys abound. There are reprints of Tugboat Annie and Thomas Wolfe. The bylines of Paul Gallico and Ellery Queen are back...