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...goes" is a phrase from Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade. It's an expression the Tralfamadorians - a race of four-dimensional aliens - repeat whenever somebody or something dies. It expresses a certain airy resignation about the inevitability of death. Vonnegut - who died Wednesday night at the age of 84 from injuries suffered in a fall - had the Tralfamadorian attitude. "I've been smoking Pall Mall unfiltered cigarettes since I was 12 or 14," he told Rolling Stone last year. "So I'm going to sue the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company, who manufactured them...
...Diet of Worms in 1521, Martin Luther, the founder of Protestantism, uttered words that would echo through centuries: “Here I stand; I can do no other.” The phrase is remembered because it captures the magnitude of standing by one’s beliefs...
...cliché phrase tells us that we have more in common than we think. This is true; however, we cannot truly appreciate the commonalities that bind us together as humans rather than separate us as races without addressing the differences that continue to divide our society. We must embrace our similarities while still having the courage and audacity to confront and learn from our differences...
...this for Don Imus: the man knows how to turn an economical phrase. When the radio shock jock described the Rutgers women's basketball team, on the April 4 Imus in the Morning, as "nappy-headed hos," he packed so many layers of offense into the statement that it was like a perfect little diamond of insult. There was a racial element, a gender element and even a class element (the joke implied that the Scarlet Knights were thuggish and ghetto compared with the Tennessee Lady Vols...
...extent that it gives him a reason to continue living. The contrast works most effectively when military and civilian life meet in one place after Beah is taken to a rehabilitation center by UNICEF workers. Beah’s constant repetition of the civilian worker’s phrase “It’s not your fault…” allows the reader to experience the anger Beah and other former soldiers felt at having lost their power and the respect due to them while allowing Beah to bring the story into focus. And that intimate...