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...Vonnegut Statement is any indication of the trend, the assistant professors who are making the assignments are busy petrifying the work of this folksy fatalist into critical stepping-stones to tenure. The book's lengthy bibliography-which should prove finally that Vonnegut is no longer a neglected writer-lists scores of articles, reviews and scholarly probings about him. There are even five doctoral dissertations, including something called "Quick-Stasis: The Rite of Initiation in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Enemy of Pretension | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

...bedazzled Boston press). Brel, they would have us believe, is a realistic romantic and a tempered cynic. But what comes through his songs-at least those chosen for this show-is not so much romantic as sentimental, the songs of a man less a cynic, more a weak-kneed fatalist...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Cabarets Jacques Brel Is Alive, And, Well, He's Living in a Ballroom At the Somerset Hotel | 10/24/1970 | See Source »

Scotland's Jackie Stewart is something of a brooding fatalist. His elder brother Jimmy preceded him as a racing driver but retired after two serious accidents and a near-fatal collision in the 1954 Le Mans classic. In 1968 his roommate and closest friend, the incomparable Jim Clark, was killed in a crash on the Hockenheim circuit. "The loss of Jimmy was an enormous blow," says Stewart, "but it couldn't make me give up racing. Jimmy was a professional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Ruler of the Road | 8/1/1969 | 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 (that is, the belief that the "reasons" why things happen to us are a series of random events beyond our control) serves us particularly well as a transition--to, for example, move us philosophically from event to event in our existence. When someone's existence terminates in the book...

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

...told us one other thing before we left. We said, "You're a fatalist; but you still believe in the dignity...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: The Cuckoo Clock in Kurt Vonnegut's Hell | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

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