Word: orphan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...positive thinking and goes directly to its roots. As the essays reveal, these roots are inextricably bound up with Silone's own-with his youth among the landless peasants of the Abruzzi mountains, with his early religious training, with the earthquake that left him an orphan at 14, and with the Fascists, who killed his sole surviving brother. Many of these details appeared in Silone's contribution to The God That Failed (1949), a collection of confessional essays by ex-Communists, including Koestler and Richard Wright...
...LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE CALL THE EYE BANK...
...Love Yourself" Less fascinating than these witty, horrific, social criticisms-bleak Utopias all-but often more convincing and moving, are Vonnegut's stories on contemporary themes. They concern, among others, a half-Negro war orphan searching for his father, and a dedicated music teacher trying to soften the heart of a hardened juvenile delinquent. These tales forcibly demonstrate humanity at its best-people trying to cope with the painful present instead of escaping into an anesthetized future...
...written a book entitled Think Clear or Die. He wants to apply systems analysis and game theory to the national diaper rash; yet he has the touch of a hip nightclub comic: "I hate to break the news to you, Edsel baby, but thrift went out with Little Orphan Annie and her anal-retentive boxtops...
Charlie Brown Orphan Annie...