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...nation's commerce. Presumably by threatening to deny unemployment benefits, the government would coerce the jobless into performing what the laborers would likely perceive as make-work. The entire scene seems almost like a tremendous civilian chain gang. Like the members of the Reconstruction and Reclamation Corps in Vonnegut's Player Piano, such workers would soon begin to think of themselves as "Reeks and Wrecks...
DEADEYE DICK by Kurt Vonnegut Delacorte; 240 pages...
America's most easily understood novelist is back. And forth. In his new book, Kurt Vonnegut once again traverses time and space, filling the pages. With short sentences. And placebo profundities: "To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life." And bromides: "the witching hour," "laughingstock," "dumb luck," "social leper...
...compromise in a group of Long Island, N.Y., suburbs. The board of the Island Trees Union Free School District, based in Levittown, voted 6 to 1 to return to school libraries the nine books it banned in 1975. The removal of the books, which included Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver, sparked national controversy and a legal challenge that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The court ruled in June that the ban might violate First Amendment rights, and ordered a trial to determine the reasons for removing the books...
...shame that Emerson had to harden into a monument, into mere required reading, or worse, the man superseded by Kurt Vonnegut on the course lists. Too many generations came to regard him as a chill, gnomic bore, the best of American aphorists, no doubt, but also the most relentless ("A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," "Traveling is a fool's paradise," "... fired the shot heard round the world," and even the 1960s' dreamy license, "Do your thing"). His fatally worthy subjects (Self-Reliance, Prudence, Friendship) have oppressed generations of eighth-grade English classes. People should...