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...Home is where my book is," thinks 36-year-old Harry Lesser as he hotfoots it back to his bachelor apartment in a decaying New York City tenement. There, for the past ten years, Lesser has been working on his third novel. His first was a success, his second kissed off as evidence of sophomore slump. The new novel, entitled The Promised End, is about a writer who cannot love generously. "Love up to a point," Lesser writes, "is no love...
...York to find that his wife of 1½ years had become a drug addict. Soon after, she left him, and her mother had Pew evicted from the couple's apartment. Unable to find housing and without a family of his own, he lived in an abandoned Harlem tenement with rats and junkies as his only neighbors for several weeks before finding a room. "Guys look forward to getting home and getting all those benefits the Army promised while you were in," says Pew. "They're in for a big surprise, though. Viet Nam veterans...
Often the search for adequate housing is even more difficult. Albert Pryor has been squatting in an abandoned tenement for the last four years, much of the time attending college. He has been on the New York City Housing Authority waiting list all the while, but there is still no opening in sight. One city VA official estimates that in New York City alone there are currently more than 10,000 veterans who are forced to live with family or friends or, like Pryor, to camp illegally in empty buildings because they are unable to find quarters of their...
...hanging plywood figures of dead blacks around the sprawling figure of a white girl on a bed. "I put her on the floor underneath the figures to emphasize the sexual inference under the issue of race in this country." There is even a constructed replica of a Harlem tenement's front stoop, complete with jumbled trash cans; from it issue the taped screams and shouts of a family killing a rat in their room...
...those times especially, the heavyweight champion of the world became a figure of international fame; and, if he came from a tenement-bound ethnic minority, a folk hero. This spirit is not yet dead; though today's fighters don't go twenty-five or thirty rounds, though tickets to a good fight now cost as much as seats for a ballet, when Italian legions scream "Nino!" a gut-level nationalism is present; and when Clay returns to floor a dumb (if scrappy) Irish fighter like Quarry, and a stronger Oscar Bonavena, the crowd roars for him not only...