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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kurt Vonnegut doesn't really want to write a war book about death. That's why its presence hangs throughout this book as something he is unable to avoid. He takes off the first chapter to explain he doesn't want to write about war. He just has to. The book is more a thing of his environment than of himself? But we, for some reason, don't believe him when we read him saying that war is a topic he's been forced to deal with. I don't know Why we don't believe it. But, for some...
...that might be most enlightening when compared. The actual story of the book depends on the chronology of capture and eventual freedom during World War II. But Vonnegut's ideas don't depend on it--he tells us what the end of the book will be in the first chapter...
...Rosovsky Report--the section dealing with Afro-American Studies at Harvard. (Needless to say, we consider African Studies to be an integral component of any Afro-American Studies program, and we exclude it from discussion only because our competence in the field is limited.) Concluding this chapter is a list of 17 recommendations concerned with the establishment and continuance of Afro-American Studies. These recommendations were accepted by the Faculty on February 11. The action of the standing Faculty Committee--their disregard for the terms of the Rosovsky Report--is a damning illustration of the misuse of the decision-making...
...brought each new unfolding chapter of this problem up before my section on Existential Psychology. The section agreed that the problem was that one had to relate himself to the dog's full existence. For example in the paper training of the dog, they said that it wasn't enough to expect the dog to be behaviorized by the "usual" pattern of threats and rewards. We should make ourselves aware of the dog's entire situation, and then set it up so that his doing it on the paper is consonant with his existence as he knew...
STOLEN KISSES. Francois Truffaut's new film is another chapter in his cinematic autobiography, a souvenir of the frantic romances and comic careers of an adolescent (Jean-Pierre Léaud) reaching for manhood...