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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 67
... better . ' I have not been able to imagine anything better " ( p . 59 ) . She needs , of course , her prince . " By this Snow White means that she lives her own being as incomplete , pending the arrival of one who will ' complete ' her ...
... better . ' I have not been able to imagine anything better " ( p . 59 ) . She needs , of course , her prince . " By this Snow White means that she lives her own being as incomplete , pending the arrival of one who will ' complete ' her ...
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... 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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