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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saying that the summit "is an important day in the life of the planet," Richard Baydin has taken a leave since October 30 from his teaching job at the Fernald State School in Waltham for his peace campaign...
...Lone- ly Business, and he dedicates the work to such masters of the form as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. But The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep are about as close to this beachfront vaudeville as Mars and Saturn are to Pluto (the Disney dog, not the planet). It hardly matters. All of the productions, from Something Wicked This Way Comes to The Martian Chronicles, are portions sawed from a long plank called Bradbury. Brief or full length, they bear the characteristic fine grain, knots, splinters and warps...
That's not leadership; it's evidence that lawmakers have given in to the Reagan reactionary movement. This country is the wealthiest on this planet, and there can be no excuse for not being able to provide enough money to aid the needy. Taxes should be raised, corporations should pay their fair share, and politicians should convince Americans that this is how things should...
...species that inspired his theories of natural selection. But according to Vonnegut, nature goofed: Homo sapiens' highly developed cerebral lobes were responsible for the world's troubles. Thinking generated opinions, rationalizations and a peculiar sense of pleasure from cruelty. Says Leon the friendly ghost: "This was a very innocent planet, except for those great big brains...
...this type of writing--bold, inventive, concise, brash--that gives us a renewed optimism about the shallow, greedy generation that we college students comprise, and that makes us all just a teensy bit more hopeful about the future of life on this planet...