Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...published in mid-May. In other ways, too, they seem to be matched and curiously revealing pieces of American fiction (see following reviews). Both are profoundly American in style and subject: Roth's The Great American Novel, a satiric fantasy about a mythical baseball league; Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions, a surrealist account of a car dealer in the Midwest. Vonnegut is the Erasmus of the black comedians, who feels life as tragedy but tries to see it as a joke that can be ruefully shared. Roth at 40 is some sort of jet-propelled dervish who whirls...
...planet where little green men explain to earthlings that time is not a flowing river but a range of mountains, all eternally coexistent. Many of Vonnegut's characters, too, coexist from book to book. Kilgore Trout, the science-fiction writer who eventually becomes the catalyst of disaster in Breakfast of Champions (Delacorte; $7.95), first appeared in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater...
...aghast when I return home to see the amount of food thrown away each week by average middle-class families in the U.S. And if less were spent on so-called junk foods (soft drinks, sweets and snacks) it seems to me that Americans could be eating steak for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Meat prices are too high, but Americans are spoiled and the rest of the world is unsympathetic...
These two community groups filled the council chambers on Monday night to protest the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority's (CRA) plan for the development of Kendall Square. In addition, they charged that the Council and the CRA had made a deal on the matter during an April 15 breakfast at the Hotel Sonesta...
Although Councillors Henry F. Owens III, Saundra Graham and Alfred E. Vellucci all admitted they had been at the breakfast, they angrily denied the existence of any secret deal...