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...Kurt by the way. What’s your name...
Over the next six hours we talked about the most eccentric things that two complete strangers could possibly discuss (plus the kids slept the entire time—maybe they overdosed?). I learned that Kurt was an artist in Rhode Island whose wife was a clothing designer. I told him about my concentration and how it was completely random and did not fit into anything I would ever consider doing in life, and how honestly, at a place like Harvard, that lack of direction made me anxious. We discussed crushes and boyfriends, (more about) first-loves and marriage. We talked...
...inclusive, inspiring way to live life. It is a way of uniting those [non-religious] people into a positive community that can make a major contribution to a more peaceful, more stable world.” Humanists currently hold a wide base in the cultural and scientific world. Author Kurt Vonnegut served as honorary president of the American Humanist Association, and science-fiction author Issac Asimov served as its president until his death in 1992. However, humanism is much less represented in the political sphere, said Epstein. “There is only one openly humanist politician currently serving...
...BEEN 25 YEARS younger, he would have been the quintessential 1960s hippie. Instead, the sweet-souled, world-weary, darkly funny Kurt Vonnegut became the avuncular, rumpled hero of the counterculture generation. In books like Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, the satirist, who struggled with depression, repeatedly explored the harmful effects of industry on human beings' collective morality. After laboring in obscurity for decades, he shot to global fame in 1969 with Slaughterhouse-Five, a fictionalized account of his experiences as a POW and "corpse miner" in Dresden after the Allies bombed the city...
...leaves his segment a little less hyperkinetic and a lot more joyless than Rodriguez’s. It mixes a slasher film with car chases, which basically means that the film starts out being one thing but ends up being something else entirely.The film revolves around a psychotic stuntman (Kurt “Snake Plissken” Russell, in a piece of such inspired casting it rivals John Travolta in “Pulp Fiction” and David Carradine in “Kill Bill”) whose “death-proof” car serves...