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...short stories and essays, Kurt Vonnegut concludes: "Perhaps it would be helpful to imagine me as the White Rock girl, kneeling on a boulder in a nightgown, either looking for minnows or adoring her own reflection." It is easier to imagine the author of six novels -among them God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater and Cat's Cradle-as a zany but moral mod scientist at the controls of a literary time machine. He is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one 45-year-old writer exploring the inner and outer spaces of the man-against-machine...
...tests the steel of man's capacity to endure. A local "30-minute" news program consists of twelve minutes of news and weather and 18 minutes of commercial blight. The deluge of drivel is often highlighted by a car dealer's hypocritical, Bible-waving sign-off: "Gaw bless ya 'n' yore luvved...
...bless the'Russian delegation...
...bless, indeed, a planet which
Heiskell urged the students to "honor individuality, while you oppose an individual or his group-for it has made you yourself. Honor your father and mother, and their parents before them, while you despise what was done to them-for they have given you your perseverance and strength. And bless your color-for in the history of nations it will forever be known that it was the black American who caused the reformation of this society-and the restoration of this republic to the principles on which it was founded...