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...royal hunting forest at the eastern end of the Paris Metro line. Even when Vincennes opened in 1970, the campus was Sixties Squalid. Today the school is an ill-repaired set of buildings and classrooms with barely a wall not defaced by leftist posters or spray-painted slogans: SHAH ASSASSIN! I HATE COPS. SOLIDARITY WITH NICARAGUA...
...Though Viorst never sees the depth of the dehumanization in America that throttled the Movement and killed it in the end. Fire in the Streets is saved by its heroes, who identify the antagonist of the Movement, the thug who aroused the civil rights movement, the assassin who cut them all down, and who lives today. Allen Ginsberg found the villain--the cause and effect--that Viorst gropes...
...Nobody knows what the cause is, Though some pretend they do; It's like some hidden assassin Waiting to strike...
...left New England Patriots Receiver Darryl Stingley paralyzed from the neck down after a 1978 encounter, has set down a chilling account of his violent career. The book, written with Pro-turned-Journalist Bill Kushner, was published last week (Everest House; $9.95). Its grisly title: They Call Me Assassin...
Perhaps. But even if Tatum is the only savage-minded safety in professional football-and that seems dubious-his case is complex enough to merit consideration. For while his "confessions" may be tasteless and disturbing, he tempers them with a sort of pathetic self-pity ("I am not an assassin, but rather a human being with a deep compassion for little children"). He also tells of a ghetto boyhood in Passaic, N.J., and football as his only way out. At every stage of his career, Tatum says, he has been judged mostly by how hard he hits, first...