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WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. In this collection of short stories and essays, the author, posing as a mod scientist at the controls of a literary time machine, explores the inner and outer spaces of the man-against-machine perplex...
WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. A literary time-machine trip-via short stories and essays-that gives the traveler a look at man's present dilemmas and the bleak Utopias promised for his future...
...statistics. They insisted that so long as no one knows how thalidomide actually works inside the human system, it is impossible to forge a link between the drug and a child's malformation. Lenz answered that thalidomide has been shown to cause phocomelia in rhesus and other monkey species in which the condition does not occur naturally. For doctors to seek comparable proof in man would be at least unethical and in most countries illegal. Said Lenz: "You are demanding a kind of scientific perfectionism that is not applicable to medicine. Despite the statistical methods we are forced...
...Bellmon built a vi able G.O.P. in Democratic Oklahoma, overcame a 4-to-l registration gap, and carried the state for Richard Nixon in 1960 and himself in 1962. A Marine veteran of Iwo Jima who does not drink, smoke or swear, he delighted the backwoods by scorning a "monkey suit" at his inauguration. As Oklahoma's first G.O.P. Governor, Bellmon proved so popular that in 1966 he was able to pull in a Republican successor, Governor Dewey Bartlett, a Princeton-educated, Roman Catholic Tulsan in a traditionally rural-oriented, Protestant state. Democratic hegemony has been shattered...
WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE by Kurt Vonneguf Jr. 298 pages. Del-acorfe...