Word: selfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Through flashbacks to the catastrophic Allied fire-bombing of Dresden in World War II, this agonizing, outrageous, funny and profoundly rueful fable tries to say something about human cruelty and self-protective indifference...
...average, middle-class wage earner of America was as disgusted as I was after reading the account of "Hunger" [May 16], then I would imagine that it was one of the most self-damaging displays yet staged by those on welfare rolls. With reference to the "filth-encrusted" gymnasium, what is preventing the underprivileged from cleaning up the place? And as for the food stamps being "more trouble than they're worth," most of us have to exert ourselves to some extent to get food for our tables-some of us even have jobs. The biggest mistake the Government...
...monks began batting a ball around a monastery courtyard with crude wooden paddles. Thus was launched a royal rage. The impromptu game, which came to be known as court tennis, spread from cloister to castle and soon ranked as the foremost sport of kings. Louis X so overextended him self chasing balls that he became ill and died shortly after a match. Henry VIII was reportedly puffing around the court when aides informed him that Anne Boleyn's beheading had been accomplished. In 1641, Louis XIII of France defeated Philip IV of Spain in a match, perhaps because Cardinal...
...loin films multiply, newspapers must endlessly ask themselves: What is an acceptable movie ad? In the absence of legal storm-fencing (obscenity is largely determined by "contemporary community standards"), there are as many qualifications for acceptability as there are papers. In movie-ad censorship, every sheet is self-laundering...
...that everyone shouldn't get down. He didn't say it with great eloquence, and Leahey's point of view certainly mad more sense, but hearing Ince speak as he did was somehow impressive. It was just good to hear his belief that the team shouldn't be so self-critical. There was lors of feeling...