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Vietnam veterans don't sound like my teacher. They tell cynical stories of an arbitrary war. They tell of buddies killed in the jungle by an anonymous trap or an accidental bombing. They learned to kill to save a corrupt government, and they learned to accept death as a pointless inevitability...
...with fashion. Wolfe is remarkably unfashionable. His book is crammed with opinions that could get him banned from liberal cocktail parties for life. For example, he notes that the restrictions imposed by the Johnson Administration on the bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong forced Navy pilots to take unreasonable and pointless risks−and needlessly killed hundreds of them. At the height of the Viet Nam protests, amid cries that fascism was at hand. Americans "had, and exercised, the most extraordinary political freedom and civil rights in all history." The sexual revolution ,means that people can copulate "with the same open...
...film lends itself to unflattering comparisons with recent movies of a similar ilk but of more polish and originality. The particular setting may seem a bit novel, but its anarchic resolution seems more appropriate to one of those Night Gallery travesties than to a full-length feature film. Pointless as Carrie may appear, a screening could at least lead to a trip down Memory Lane. Think about that Duckling you never asked to the prom some time; there just might have been a little Carrie buried down there...
...perhaps that explains the grim tone. But the novel never surmounts a cloying obsession with slow death and supernatural reincarnation; in the end, Burgess offers only black humor and muddled despair as Death wins out. The result is a novel long on bizarre plot twists and short on ideas: pointless death makes for a pointless novel...
Postel said those who chose not to receive the vaccine probably feared side effects or thought the vaccine pointless because there has been no recent swine flu recurrence...