Word: vonnegut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only thing worse than an antiwar play is war. The current mode is for such plays to be written by laughing Cassandras, doomsday seers with quips on their lips. A couple of seasons ago there was Joseph Heller's We Bombed in New Haven; now there is Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s Happy Birthday, Wanda June. There is a strong temptation to say "Catch-23, please skiddoo...
...Vonnegut's address, the congregation was asked to rise. They filed solemnly past a table in an adjoining room, deposited their written offerings, and left in silence...
Except for one girl who stopped to ask Vonnegut for his autograph...
...Vonnegut's succinct 45-second address climaxed an emotional hour-long vigil in the upper Seminar Room at Warren House, English Department headquarters, where a couple hundred aspiring novelists turned up to apply for the 15 places in author Vonnegut's English V writing course. After a 20-second pause, during which the assembled absorbed the preceding sentence, Vonnegut added. "If your love life is in a shambles and everything else is going wrong, this will be just one more thing...
...meeting was scheduled for 2 p.m. Vonnegut entered the room at approximately 2:11. He stood in a dark recess, the only light coming from the tip of his cigarette and the flash bulbs reflected off his blue suit. His first words were, "Are all you people here for my course...