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Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut's 1952 satire about automation and the working stiff, was premature. Cat's Cradle (1963), an end-of-the-world scenario, fared better in the wake of Khrushchev's shoe banging and the Cuban missile crisis. Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) was, in the expression of the day, right on. The novel was based on the author's experience as an American POW in Dresden when Allied bombers killed 135,000 civilians. This reminder of total war coincided with the mayhem of Viet Nam, and Vonnegut the cult writer became a popular voice of generalized disenchantment. His refrain...
...facing stiff competition from Boston University and Northeastern, ran well--but only well enough for a third-place showing in the five team meet...
There were two minutes left in the third period, William & Mary was threatening to take a 15-point lead, and the Crimson would be facing a stiff wind in the final stanza...
...measure was drafted by Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois and two Democratic colleagues, Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen and Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt. It would require countries that are running especially large surpluses in trade with the U.S. to begin reducing them immediately or face a stiff penalty: a 25% tariff to be imposed on the value of all goods that they continued to sell in the U.S. In its present form, the bill would apply to four nations: Japan (of course), Taiwan, South Korea and Brazil. Thus it would raise sharply the prices American consumers would...
This year's tourney looks to draw a similarly talented field, and will give the Cantabs a heavy dose of stiff national competition