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...Drake, N. Dak., the five-member school board in 1973 ordered the confiscation and burning of three books that, according to Professor Jenkinson, none of the members had read: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, James Dickey's Deliverance and an anthology of short stories by writers like Joseph Conrad, John Steinbeck and William Faulkner. Said the school superintendent Slater: "I don't regret it one bit, and we'd do it again. I'm just sorry about all the publicity that we got." In Warsaw, Ind., a gaggle of citizens in 1977 publicly burned...
...hunger. Some experts see analogous dangers in the robot revolution. If robots can do men's work faster, better and more cheaply, then what will men do? They will be retrained for other things, the robotmakers answer. But by whom, and for what? Almost 20 years ago, Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano portrayed a future society in which the elite few run the machines while the unemployable majority subsists on handouts in resentful idleness. "It's an enormous problem," concedes Luigi Lazzaroni, president of the Italian firm that makes the Pragma robot. "Many will have to learn...
...Kurt Vonnegut Jr., novelist: "He hasn't insulted the intelligence of the American people. Well, it's a dull year...
Granted, this style makes for an occasional humorous line, and few will charge Robbins with the crime of dullness. If Robbins were better writer, one might be tempted to compare his style with Kurt Vonnegut's. But the pseudo-ideological dregs that comprise the stuff of the novel overpower and stifle the cleverness; and Robbins has not earned the right to be off-handed and conversational with his readers...
Although it is almost 8 p.m. as Beebe speaks, curious pedestrians are still dropping in to look around. One mustachioed visitor, quickly identified by staffers as Kurt Vonnegut, chats amiably for about ten minutes before signing autographs and leaving. "That was Kurt Vonnegut, the author. He just walked right in," bubbled Tina Rosenberg, a 20-year-old press aide...