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...
...confronted by a generation of neurotics or we are permitting a few malcontents to disrupt our entire educational system. Like thousands of other G.I.s, I am looking forward to a college education after my discharge from the Army. More than anyone, I believe, we truly value the chance for self-improvement that a college offers. It would be a shame if we returned to the U.S. only to find piles of rubble where universities once stood...
European Jewry suffered the holocaust in intensified aggravation because of the chutzpah of just such self-appointed Ge-meinde Führers. In fact, such self-anointed Jewish leaders "negotiated" countless numbers of (mis)represented Jews right into the crematoria...
...disaffected of his generation to the outside world, and the great danger of The Strawberry Statement is that despite the author's disclaimers it will be read as a typical case of a phenomenon people are now desperately anxious to understand. Moderates will be reassured by Kunen's self-doubts--his hones confessions, for instance, that should the war end, he might have nothing left to hate. But this teetering, and essentially apolitical commitment to revolution, is by no means universal among radical students. Kunen doesn't know or pretend to know any economics or much political science--in fact...
There had been an open bar for an hour before dinner was served by the Club's buxom serving girls, and the combination of the two made it fortunate that all the awards were the same--Paul Revere Bowls. Distance man Spider McLoone, the squad's self-styled Ed Sullivan, officiated as master of ceremonies, making a futile attempt to keep the level of the banquet respectable...