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In Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, our drunken hero crashes a convention of science-fiction writers. "I love you sons of bitches," he says. "You're the only ones with guts enough to really care about the future, who really notice what machines do to...
I think the latter. I think one could see the train of events leading to it. And as a matter of fact, by December of 1966, we were convinced and I was convinced that we were moving in that direction. The only thing that we had not settled in our...
They've ripped out his guts and substituted bile, have transformed his rhetoric into rant. No longer the liberator of a stage, he has been bound into its conventions, becoming a plaything for experimenting youngsters and a typical "serious" theatre audience in wire-rims and leotards.
Powlison was especially down on swimming last winter after the Dart-mouth meet. "I cared so much, and I tried so hard," he recalled. "I literally swam my guts out more than I had in my whole life." Nevertheless, he lost the 1000-free, and later in the 500-free...
"The headmaster hates his guts," one classmate asserted. "He doesn't recognize him as an alumnus. He wouldn't even write him a recommendation for Harvard." Another said, "O'Leary mentions him as often as possible in a bad light. He doesn't like to have him in the school...