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Indeed, any explanation at all can smack of the pat. The consequence of lives like John Hinckley Jr.'s may be to amend a patriotic platitude. Perhaps not every little boy can grow up to be President, but he can, for the price of a pistol, grow up to be a presidential assassin...
...Midlands elementary school who is busily donning her New Woman persona on the threshold of middle age. She insists, perhaps understandably, on being called Ms. Strong, instead of Mrs. Fidgett. This flusters Headmistress Smale (Beverly May) and the older staff, as do her theories of education, which smack of the bankrupt experiments of the '60s. She has no use for learning by rote. She wants children to play teachers, to make up their own work assignments, and for every one to "have a lot of fun and excitement, the kids and the teachers." The children, who are never seen...
...Crusades. For the civil rights movement as a whole and SNCC in particular, the villains were easy to come by. There were the club-swinging sheriffs, invariably paunchy, invariably cackling, invariably so stupid that they'd sic the dogs and turn on the firehoses and order the charge smack in front to the t.v. cameras. There were the hooded Klansmen, who blew up churches. There were the signs--"Whites Only" or "No Coloreds." As other movement historians have documented, civil rights leaders were smart enough to provoke reactions, and when the cops refused to swing away on national...
...decent, modest lives. No longer violent in their opposition to "the system," they have, with few exceptions, quietly abstained from becoming a part of it. One guy spends all his time fixing cars; others are teachers, drug counselors, songwriters. One girl writes speeches for a liberal senator whose politics smack of opportunism. She worries about...
...office and living. In the East Side area between 50th and 94th streets?the heart of the matter, if the Big Apple were an artichoke?at least eight new co-ops or condominiums are currently in some stage of completion, all high-rising and luxurious, of course, and all smack in the center of things, which accounts for their appeal. At the proposed 44-story Museum Tower, for example, condominium owners will be able to descend from a $250,000 one-bedroom home to an extension of the Museum of Modern Art within the same building. In the 62-story...