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Page 39
... better ways ' ( p . 31 ) . Better Living Through Chemistry , Progress Is Our Most Important Product - Kurt Vonnegut , Jr. , the public relations man who could easily have written these slogans , took his own advice and wrote novels ...
... better ways ' ( p . 31 ) . Better Living Through Chemistry , Progress Is Our Most Important Product - Kurt Vonnegut , Jr. , the public relations man who could easily have written these slogans , took his own advice and wrote novels ...
Page 64
... better , is his chief concern . The roots for it may be found in his in- terest with the forms of language and even the sounds of words . At times he simply puns , but always within imaginative structures : ' If we can just cross that ...
... better , is his chief concern . The roots for it may be found in his in- terest with the forms of language and even the sounds of words . At times he simply puns , but always within imaginative structures : ' If we can just cross that ...
Page 178
... better world to make than simply the banal American quest . That allegedly real world is quite madly unreal ; a Dow Jones average is only one arbitrary synthesis , basi- cally no better ( and practically much worse ) than the ...
... better world to make than simply the banal American quest . That allegedly real world is quite madly unreal ; a Dow Jones average is only one arbitrary synthesis , basi- cally no better ( and practically much worse ) than the ...
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