Word: human
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Through flashbacks to the catastrophic Allied fire-bombing of Dresden in World War II, this agonizing, funny and rueful fable has much to say about human cruelty and indifference...
...perceive a "fundamental transformation in the human condition"-for none such has ever occurred-but rather made such a transformation his Promethean goal...
...warmest and most sympathetic studies are often not those of human beings at all but animals, plants and natural forces. He was fascinated by horses, drawing them from life and from memory, from every angle...
...novelist, Miss Susann unwittingly gravitates toward a caricature of naturalism, a relatively uncomplicated form of literary life born in the seminal spillage of Darwin's The Origin of Species and kept alive by public demand. Naturalism at best tends to project the human animal as an unappetizing accumulation of nerve endings and appetites. But in Miss Susann's handling, appetites consume the characters they inhabit, leaving nothing behind but a bad taste...
...array of stocks and bonds (which he contemplates at intervals in the basement of Virgil Barren's bank). Still, mysteriously and unfairly, his normal existence seems filled with threats. Waiters "take advantage of people every chance they get." Negroes unreasonably wish to be regarded as fellow human beings. Jews violate standards of business practice and profit anyway; they also try to move into one's neighborhood...