Word: pigged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe it! You mean to tell me that Tommy the Traveler [June 22] was a pig? I remember in April when he came to Keuka. We were having an anti-Administration sit-in in the hallway outside the President's office. He popped up, said he was from S.D.S., and showed us a film right there in the hall about the Berkeley riots. We acknowledged the presence of this outsider probably because he was cute and Keuka's an all-girls school! He kept saying that we'd never get our list of demands...
...Waiting for Godot, with exquisite precision, records the pain of existence. "The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops." So says Pozzo, the slavedriver, the pig, the spokesman for a decaying, overburdened, but strangely charming establishment. "There is no lack of void," says Estragon, cap-turing in his words the twentiethcentury's ironic understanding of time and space. And the agony, the anomic, the anxiety, the sheer numbing ignorance of existence is what impassions Vladimir's shriek to an unhearing universe...
...speed freak really have to lose even by getting killed? Hippie is dead. Everybody knows that except Reader's Digest. But what that means is that kids who just a couple of years ago said Peace and Love Baby and put flowers in soldiers' rifles, now say off the pig and mean...
...heaviest part of all is that deep down nobody really thinks it's going to get any better in America. There are just too many who can't understand that its no more ridiculous to yell off the pig than it is to work at a job and pay taxes to a war you can't understand. Polities is happening because it's happening. And you know, someone will say to you in the streets, revolution is far out. I can dig it. I hypothetically answer. Even though it's crazy, and maybe even wrong. You have to accept...
...elfin revenge includes a six-page bibliography of Bech's works as well as criticism of them. Travel Light, Bech's highly praised first novel, seems to carry strains of Kerouac's On the Road and Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March. Brother Pig, a novella, hints ever so slightly of Mailer's stylishly oblique and politically muddled Barbary Shore ("Puzzling Porky" is Updike's title for the TIME review). When the Saints, a collection of essays and sketches of the kind that often get published from the sheer momentum of a downsliding...