Word: feelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aware of the concerns of the black students at Harvard. Their special interests are now being considered by the various faculties. We share the faculties concern and hope they will speedily find appropriate ways to meet the special interests of these students. However, we do not feel it would be appropriate for us to anticipate the actions of the faculties on these matters...
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...
Blisters have been my only difficulty this year, too. One day, the feet are fine. So you run a long workout. New blisters develop or old ones recur. An easy day, then you feel better, and you try again. Blisters. It seems a fact of life for the marathoner, but it's minor after all. Blisters, not life...
...approve the Afro position--unless classroom fracases have by then rendered the Faculty unwilling to consider anything but law and order. Faculty members are already extremely concerned about the prospect of extensive disruptions of classes, and there is little question that should such disruption materialize, the Faculty would feel itself compelled to drop all substantive issues and to support the Corporation in whatever measures that body felt to be necessary to restore "normality" to Harvard...
...appreciate their mental and emotional fatigue at the time, but the black students have spent one full year in similar circumstances, expecting action and participation in vain. Perhaps the Faculty members can begin to understand the anger which I, for one, feel...