Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 (and just about everyone who is introduced dies...
...natural dancer, on a background of numbing artificiality and casts her opposite a series of unconvincing poseurs and popinjays. The baroque scenario -radically cut from 170 to 131 minutes -is florid without being literate, essentially true to the events, but essentially false to the tragicomic character who made them happen...
...started hard up the last hill, Heartbreak Hill, and then began to slow down. Quite a bit did I slow down. It seemed to go on forever, and for the first time I wondered what would happen if I stopped. I was bent over and just tried to keep my legs moving. Length, not steep-ness, made it torturous. But then the Hill stopped and I started back towards the center of the earth, and I was very happy...
...continuing problem with Communist guerillas on a small scale, is now having its national parliamentary election campaign. In this campaign the various opposition parties are freely campaigning for votes and publishing very strong criticisms of the present government. There is no indication that anything like this will happen in any Communist country in the foreseeable future...
...Black Studies" red shiny ribbons that you can get through SDS headquarters in Emerson Hall. For a group that has no leaders, it would be interesting to see how such decisions as getting ribbons printed are made. The answer is probably that no one makes them, the ribbons just happen...