Word: vonnegut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ogilvie and Tutko include a quote from Kurt Vonnegut...
...story of Going Nowhere is absurd, but Greenberg's good, tight fable is told with a warm, comic logic reminiscent of early Vonnegut. Arthur, a brilliant physics student, loses a leg in an unlikely series of events. Disconsolate, he becomes a hitchhiker. For ten years he lives on the random kindness of motorists, until his old mentor, Professor Melville, contacts him with an ambitious proposal. The prof wants to launch Arthur in a modest flying saucer and return him to earth as an interplanetary proselytizer for a new philosophy known as Unteleology. It disclaims any overriding purpose or plan...
...Kurt Vonnegut, guest lecturer in English in the fall term of 1970-71, once said that Spoon River Anthology is the most important book in American literature. Here is Edgar Lee Masters' vision of what the ghost of "Dippold the Optician...
...ability to cope humanely with the complex choices of modern life. But unlike most apocalyptic critics, Herndon sees no easy solution. He proceeds, moreover, by meandering parable rather than polemic, and uses a ruefully genial tone of voice that might have come from Mark Twain or Kurt Vonnegut. As a result, he is just about the only education reformer alive whose writing could be (and should be) profitably and pleasurably read aloud at the family dinner table...
...Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, our drunken hero crashes a convention of science-fiction writers. "I love you sons of bitches," he says. "You're the only ones with guts enough to really care about the future, who really notice what machines do to us, what wars do to us, what cities do to us, what tremendous misunderstandings, mistakes, accidents and catastrophes do to us. You're the only ones zany enough to agonize over time and distances without limit, over mysteries that will never die, over the fact that we are right...