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...many students say they will miss Stanley. Norbert J. Vonnegut '80, a student who has taken two courses with him said yesterday he admired the professor's thoroughness and friendly manner in and out of lectures...
...Professor Stanley explores every facet of East Asian-American relations, from the beginning of the Opium War to the last call at the Hong Kong restaurant." Vonnegut said...
Norbert J. Vonnegut '80 is a History concentrator from Charleston...
...sickness of the arts as decadence. Authors strive for texture, not content; they create characters to be tinkered with, not to be understood; their books foster self-hatred. Gardner's criticism of his colleagues is the most valuable part of On Moral Fiction. He deftly shows what authors like Vonnegut and Heller lack, entertaining as they are. We may be unable to swallow in the abstract the statement that the missing quality is "love," or "morality"; but leaving aside these culturally ambiguous, exhausted words floating like smoke-screens between us and Gardner's criticisms, he makes sense...
Wellsian fantasy? Verne-Vonnegut put-on? Maybe. But while this matutinal scenario may still be years away, the basic technology is in existence. Such painless, productive awakenings will in time be as familiar as Dagwood Bumstead's pajamaed panics. And, barring headaches, tummy aches and heartaches, the American day should proceed as smoothly as it begins. All thanks to the miracle of the microcomputer, the supercheap chip that can electronically shoulder a vast array of boring, time-consuming tasks...