The nightclub was making money, but it was strictly agrind, and who needs a grind when there is easy money to be made?"

milk and honey, where the streets were paved with gold. In such an early_paradise, where the good things of life were for the taking, one wouldseem a fool to work long hours for low pay and slow advancement. Americawas a land of opportunity

As there are suckers, so there are "sharpies."

e overwhelming mass of them were law-abiding in theirown lands. If they become lawless here it must be largely due tothe American atmosphere and conditions. There seems to me to beplenty of evidence to prove that the immigrants were made lawlessby America, r

uch fields of illicit action are limited only byculture, precedent , opportunity, and the swiftness and certaint y of sanc-tion. If large profits are easily available with relatively little risk, thepotential for organized criminal entrepreneurship is enhanced. This pointseems obvious enough, yet history and experience show that it ha s rarelybeen acted upon by designers of criminal justice systems

Thus we are not only cultural creations at best, caricatures atworst ; we are ongoing representations of myth as repeated and delimitedby our society over time