Word: blessing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...look is merry, but the merriment is diluted. Often a pained bewilderment clouds his cherubic look, and his mouth tightens as if to seal in the explosiveness and confusion behind it. Despite the dancing eyes, the tireless smile, the bouncy spirit, the effusive greetings ("Well, bless your heart," "Thank you, thank you, thank you"), the man the Democratic Party has nominated for President of the U.S. is not to be dismissed simply as a glib, out-of-touch relic of a political era long past...
...short stories and essays, Kurt Vonnegut concludes: "Perhaps it would be helpful to imagine me as the White Rock girl, kneeling on a boulder in a nightgown, either looking for minnows or adoring her own reflection." It is easier to imagine the author of six novels -among them God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater and Cat's Cradle-as a zany but moral mod scientist at the controls of a literary time machine. He is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one 45-year-old writer exploring the inner and outer spaces of the man-against-machine...
...tests the steel of man's capacity to endure. A local "30-minute" news program consists of twelve minutes of news and weather and 18 minutes of commercial blight. The deluge of drivel is often highlighted by a car dealer's hypocritical, Bible-waving sign-off: "Gaw bless ya 'n' yore luvved...
...bless the'Russian delegation...
...bless, indeed, a planet which