Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bhashani's chief Bengali rival, moderate Sheik Mujibur Rahman, have kept silent. Not Bhashani, who continues to receive newsmen and followers at his bamboo-walled hut. "What have I to fear?" he asked TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin, as he adjusted his soiled straw skull cap and straightened the green sweater that he wore inside out. "I would welcome being hanged for my people...
...GREEN IS HONEST. It paints the student in the patchwork mix we all live. We hope we are against the war for better reasons than that we are scared, and we hope that we want sex for other reason than fucking itself. But there is a dualism of high values and a debased reality in a lot of what we do. Our response to this dual nature may take the radical form of blaming corporate power for the evil we live, but this is often self-deluding and hopelessly illogical. In one scene of Greetings, a man is selling...
...came to Whitfield in bed one night in 1962. He leaped up and began scribbling down his idea; then he called on his friend Tanner. After putting up $200 each, they established headquarters in one room of a small hotel owned by Tanner's family in Golders Green, a polyglot district of Northwest London. They were in business within two weeks. Today, at 33, they are multimillionaires...
Billy lives through the war merely because he happens not to die in it, then becomes a husband and a prosperous optometrist for equally random reasons. He acquires a Reagan-stickered Cadillac and a son named Robert, who graduates from failure as a high school alcoholic to "the famous Green Berets" and becomes a fine young man, fighting in Viet Nam. The only trouble is that Billy sometimes just can't keep from bursting into tears...
Mountain Time. He visits the planet Tralfamadore (which Vonnegut invented several books ago) in a flying saucer, and learns from little green men there that time is not a river, as earthlings think, but an unmoving phenomenon like a mountain range, continually visible to the Tralfamadorians from one end to the other. Since he has become unstuck in time, like the flying-saucer people, Billy, too, experiences many times over the events of his life, repeatedly returning to recollections of Dresden, and the great fire that followed. No one of these occurrences seems more unusual to Billy than...