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...bullet entered at the back of the neck, and exited through the right cheek. An hour later, Walker Lindsay was dead--no longer "a representative of Nether Providence High School," as the coaches had always reminded him that he was, but only one more dead black criminal, caught committing yet another felony while awaiting trial...
...announcing Walker's death was the first most of these people had heard of Walker since the fall of 1970, his senior year. Then he had been in the newspapers weekly as Captain and Most Valuable Player of what was called by many "The Best Damn Football Team in Nether Providence History." The Bulldogs went undefeated that year, methodically demolishing most opponents by 40 or 50 points in dull games. One sportswriter wrote that it was not the talent of any one or two or ten individuals that made NPHS the scourge of Philadelphia and Delaware so much...
...left for the South, someone who looked a lot like Walker. He told me he had been forced to give up his job after the arrest, but that he planned to go back to school this September. He was giving up football. He wanted to teach and coach at Nether Providence...
...that last season Walker was determined to stay out of trouble, to make that last season at Nether Providence his best. As in seasons past, players from all-white opponent teams muttered to him in pile-ups, "Like them licks, nigger." But in the fall of 1970, Walker only laughed and said, "Look at the scoreboard, mo' fo'." We were behind only once that entire season, and then by only two points for less than two minutes, so his response flowed freely. In the fourth game of the season, it was I, ordinarily the team's voice of reason, that...
Adrienne Rich is a person who has taken many small but exquisite steps in fulfilling her own large talent. Often she has had to dive into the "wreck" she refers to in her latest collection of poems (Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972), into a nether world of subconscious fantasies, psychic pain, and a bankrupted society. Out of the ruins, however, she has built a life of poetry, a life as a mother, a teacher, a woman, that has left here reasonably content. Contemplating the meaning of the title that heads up her latest volume, she answers a question...