Critical Essay by Valentine Cunningham
Kurt Vonnegut—public clown, master of disguises, wizard of the ironic approach, self-parodist, sender-up of his self-sending-up—gives the reader o...
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Critical Essay by The Virginia Quarterly Review
In this patchwork of literary remnants [Palm Sunday],… Vonnegut reasserts his simple, perennial theme: most human behavior is innocent. Slaughte...
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Critical Essay by Chris Tucker
Like his fellow humorist Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut attains his main strength as a writer in his grasp of persona. Wear the right mask, he knows, and you can say anythin...
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Critical Essay by Edward Hoagland
[An] imaginary young tiger of a novelist, fresh out of one of the writing programs where Mr. Vonnegut has taught, could turn ["Palm Sunday: An Autobiographica...
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Critical Essay by Michael Malone
Kurt Vonnegut is the Danny Kaye of American Letters, a world-famous jester whose sweet and zany style has never been sealed by the academy as the high art of a Chapli...
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Critical Essay by Christopher Lehmann-haupt
"Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage" [is] a race down to the wire between the good stuff and the bad stuff, in which the good stuff win...
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Pope Benedict XVI, in his Palm Sunday Mass, opened the Roman Catholic Church's most solemn week by urging young people to live pure, innocent lives.This year, Holy Week also includes the second ann...
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A planned Holy Week exhibition of a nude, anatomically correct chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ was canceled Friday after Cardinal Edward Egan and other outraged Catholics complained.The "My Swe...
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Warsaw (dpa) - Archbishop Kazimierz Nycz was formally inducted as
the new Roman Catholic Metropolitan Bishop of Warsaw at a regular
Palm Sunday mass in Warsaw Cathedral.
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The Roman Catholic Church will celebrate St. Patrick's Day two days early next year in Ireland, to avoid a conflict with observances for an exceptionally early Holy Week.Thanks to Irish emigration,...
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It was the Palm Sunday Ambush, a 30-minute firefight on a four-lane highway south of Baghdad.Terrorists in small groups had been launching hit-and-run attacks in the area.But on that Palm Sunday, M...
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Thousands of pilgrims retraced Jesus' footsteps Wednesday as they celebrated Holy Week at the sites where Christians mark his crucifixion, death and resurrection.A decrease in Palestinian-Israeli v...
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Sister Marie-Simon-Pierre is the French nun whose testimony of a mystery cure from Parkinson's disease will likely be accepted as the miracle the Vatican needs to beatify Pope John Paul II, an offi...
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Today is Palm Sunday, April 1, the 91st day of 2007. There are 274 days left in the year. This is April Fool's Day.Today's Highlight in History:On April 1, 1945, American forces invaded Okinawa, Ja...
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Ramallah (dpa) - A senior Palestinian official welcomed Monday the
trip to Ramallah on Sunday by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and
rejected earlier criticism of the visit ...
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Ramallah (dpa) - High ranking Palestinian sources expressed Monday
to Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa "deep disappointment" with the visit
on Sunday of German Chancellor Angela ...
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Critical Essay by Valentine Cunningham
Pope celebrates Palm Sunday Mass
