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...nearly always sad and repulsive to look at." Céline had ample opportunity to contemplate the human body in full adversity, for he was a doctor and he spent much of his adult life in a run-down Parisian suburb as one of those slum saints who cure what is curable in the poor for little or no pay. Partly as a result, he viewed the body of modern society with unparalleled revulsion and no hope. The only cure for life, he came to feel, was death...
...Death on the Installment Plan, the book, published in Europe in 1957, concludes a crazed autobiographical trilogy-one of the most terrible ever written. Its perverse moral passion is all the more forceful because its obscene invective, snarled out in the argot of the streets, is that of a slum Savonarola raging against men not for living wrongly but for living...
...present, there are some 16 storefront Street Academies in the slum areas of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Under a program organized by the Urban League, and financed mainly by private industry, street workers search for the promising dropout. The shrewd, sharp youngster, who has seen enough of the dismal life of the ghetto, may be receptive to the suggestion that he can find his way out. After getting used to a routine of study in a Street Academy, he is sent on to an Academy of Transition for advanced classes and individual tutoring...
Ghetto mothers, however, may well re gard such incidents as necessary tests of their youngsters' ability to survive the slum's daily violence. Often, of course, Negro slum dwellers not only passively accept crime but also actively admire the criminals - especially if their victims are white. Many Harlemites, said a local N.A.A.C.P. official recently, "seem to have the idea that [black criminals] are some sort of 20th century Robin Hoods...
...disappeared. Any stray horse was likely to be set upon and butchered on the hoof by starving citizens. In the final stages of the famine, parents kept a close eye on their children lest they be kidnaped; the "meat patties" that were sold in the Haymarket, Leningrad's slum quarter, sometimes contained human flesh. Salisbury describes how Red Army soldiers, after gunning down two suspected cannibals, found the hocks of five human beings hanging from hooks in their apartment...