Word: thoughtfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always in his mind remains the thought that building costs are going up at the rate of eight per cent a year and this means, in terms of the new Center, about $7 millions per year. As he puts it, "The more money we have to spend on this the more the drain will be on the treasurer of the University. This money will have to come from somewhere, and I hope to hurt other programs as little as possible...
...like to remark on how carefully I think Slaughterhouse-Five was written. I've always thought that the best rock 'n' roll groups were the ones that worked on it a lot; the best writers, the ones that worked on it a lot; the best writers, the ones that threw most of it away. It 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...
...often thought that Vonnegut is so popular among us youths because his mind is bent by the exact same flashes that clutter the minds of the TV - weaned, let's-go-take-over-that-building - next generation. For instance, I was grumbling just the other day with some revolutionary cohorts about how we could best spread out culture once we took over. It was decided to pave over the whole of Southeast Asia to make way for one gigantic Frosty's, the world's biggest. Then I read that Billy Pilgrim, the hero of Slaughterhouse-Five, the character we identify...
...woman took a long time to answer the door. She thought it was someone trying to sell her something, and she said she didn't need anything. When she found out we just wanted to talk, she withdrew even further back behind the partly-opened door and said she didn't know anything: "Go away." A Building and Grounds man was in the hall, on his way to the basement to try and fix the washing machines that the occupants of the University Road apartments are afraid to use. He nodded at us. "You're in a bad area...
...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...