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Taxing Life. There is little doubt of voter unhappiness with the general. The shopkeepers of Briare claim that they are being taxed out of existence. Pierre , Renaud, who runs a combination pharmacy and tobacco shop, must pay five different kinds of taxes and fill out separate forms for each. "Those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Nation in Miniature | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

Throughout Vonnegut's book there is a persistent and unavoidable sense of preoccupation similar to the feeling of obligation we now feel towards strike activities. What he is obligated to in Slaughterhouse-Five is death. This isn't a very easy thing for a fatalist to be obligated to Fatalism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slaughterhouse-Five | 4/19/1969 | See Source »

Now the most visible changes in the mood of funerals are being made by Catholics. Charged by a decree of the Second Vatican Council to put greater emphasis on "the paschal character of Christian death," more and more bishops are allowing an experimental "white funeral," a service as different from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ritual: A Changing Way of Death | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

Tim took me from the main room, which was cluttered with left over food and props (the unit had been commuting between Cambridge and Milford for ten days), to the bedroom. Tonight was to be the first time anyone would spend the night in the cabin. "This is a great...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The Ghosts of New Hampshire | 4/10/1969 | See Source »

One day, as she sits with her lover, overlooking the snow-filled quarry, she tells him that pretty soon she is going to die. Before she does, Steven promises her that he will never fall in love again. If he breaks this vow, she can return from heaven and turn...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The Ghosts of New Hampshire | 4/10/1969 | See Source »

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