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...same blackboard you saw 20 years ago." Does this also apply to the same Professor Kittredge at the same old lectern at Harvard or to the same Professor Baker at the same old drama workshop at Yale in years past? When should a teacher be thrown on the scrap heap? Speaking as a teacher who is standing at the same old blackboard for the ninth year, and who has spent the last nine summers attending graduate school, when must I begin to apologize for wanting to continue to practice my profession with pride...
...this struggle that Vonnegut most affirms. Even at the farthest reaches of his time-machine trip, his characters rebel and fight to salvage something human from the automated junk heap of tomorrow. As Helmholtz the music teacher says to Jim Donnini the delinquent, in an effort to explain how one might bring beauty into the world: "Love yourself and make your instrument sing about it." Though Vonnegut's performance is occasionally a little slick or a little sloppy, he does succeed in making his literary instrument sing...
...agony that had accompanied his decision. "Never before," he said, "have we felt the load of our duty. We have studied, read, discussed as much as we could. And we have also prayed a lot. How many times have we had the impression of being almost submerged by this heap of documents? How many times have we realized the inadequacy of our poor person to the formidable obligation of pronouncing ourselves on this matter? How many times have we trembled before the dilemma of an easy condescension to current opinions, or of a decision badly borne by society today...
Kipling's instructions are clear enough: ;'If you can make one heap of all your winnings;/ And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,/ And lose, and start again at your beginnings . . ." Moreton Frewen, Winston Churchill's scapegrace uncle, could do all of this and did, time after time, with astonishingly consistent results. He kept on losing...
...problem is that the delegation system was not constructed to reflect a state's population in proportional terms. Rather, it was designed to reward those who, through special influence or strength of numbers, have come out on top of the political heap...