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Died. John L. Lewis, 89, leonine titan of the U.S. labor movement (see THE NATION...
...Bless You, Mr. Rosewater fame, shares a mental hospital ward and his favorite author with Pilgrim. Ilium, N.Y., hometown of Cat's Cradle and Player Piano, makes its third appearance in that role. And, finally, various progeny and siblings of Winston Niles Rumford, co-star of The Sirens of Titan, motorboat past Billy Pilgrim's bedroom window on his wedding night...
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...
...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 found out how it goes...
What emerges from this definitive show is that Jordaens was not just a poor man's Rubens-who in that day was the acknowledged titan who bestrode not only the narrow world of Antwerp but all the courts of Europe. Certainly many of Jordaens' paintings echo his master, just as do some of Van Dyck's, Rubens' other (and younger) disciple. Van Dyck went to the British court to make a successful career as perhaps the sleekest portraitist of all time. Jordaens stayed in Antwerp...