Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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YOUR BASIC Vonnegut book shows you what cause and effect are like through the example of someone's attempt to live. This one, Slaughter-house-Five, is more of an illustrated essay. It's more painful and less mystifying complex than, say, The Sirens of Titan. But that's because we're not supposed to be out for good times this trip; that's the way it goes. Here's part of what we find on this time...
...would guess Vonnegut edits lots. This book is really great in its detail. Writing, especially in a style of such overwhelming simplicity as Vonnegut's, is a matter of manipulating prepositions, adverbs, and, above all, articles. In the contemporary American idiom, at least, the whole punch of what you say depends on the order you put your little clauses and stuff in. After messing around with arranging sentences for a long time, you reach a kind of ecstasy when you finally dip into and out of a sentence as smooth as a yoyo. Sometime after The Sirens of Titan Vonnegut...
...napalm is not, in the context of this country's policies abroad, absolutely entitled to protection against protesting students. But there are no courses being taught in Harvard College whose disruption would demonstrably serve the vital interests of the Vietnamese or of anyone else. This is not to say that the ideas expressed in many courses may not have repressive or destructive implications. The point is merely that these implications. The point is merely that these implications cannot be fought by preventing teachers from expressing such ideas in their classes. The morality of disruption in such cases is therefore...
...want to make it perfectly clear that this is the last talking we will do with the Faculty," a black student said after the meeting. "It would be an understatement to say that we were outraged by what happened at the Faculty meeting. It added insult to longstanding injury. The Faculty thought its dinner was more important than the things we have been working and waiting for for months...
Black students have no desire to attack or usurp the authority of the Faculty--the Afro proposal in no way contravenes the spirit or substance of the Rosovsky report. We wish simply to have a say in this most vital matter. I for am tired of standing aside while the fate of black studies is decided, and I would urge the Faculty to accept the Afro proposal immediately and put an end to this lack of communication. CLYDE E. LINDSAY