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What Happens When | Brains Grow Obsolete?

PLAYER PIANO. A novel. By Kurt V ner :, $3.

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to he specific He treats satirically the question that has been discussed seri- yary real present, ously hy engineers like Norbert Wakeman Wiener, whose amazing achieve ments with huge-scale Talculat- tearing into the pomposity of ading machines constitute a threat vertising and allied big business to society as we Know it, a Pr. Wiener has warned us of what may happen in this secofid Phants. industrial revolution that renders tion, he shows up the tendency obsolete most human brains of bigness to perpetuate itself, to short of genius. crush criticism and opposition, = Now Mr. Vonnegut, with serio- In a society dominated by a comic intent, turns out a most pierarchy of engineers, with less entertaining novel in a vein re- gifted citizens relegated to the calling Aldous Huxley's BRAVE Army or.the “Heeks and Wrecks” NEW WORLD. Gathering mentum as he goes along, Mr Vonnegut relates the that befall Dr.

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Corps), Paul is misfit, He lacks disasters «iyo apility to he moved emo »g pr a Paul Proteus, en tionally, almost like a lover, by

gineer high in the command great omnipresent and omni echelons of the new, machine sclent spook, the corporate per dominated American soclety of " . sonality,

some undetermined future time, Besides Paul, his ambitious wife,

Paul gets into .trouble because he Anita. and hfs conniving competis “fundamentally a nonconform- Mr ist. He can't take seriously the : ideals of his peers and superiors. amiably He finds their morale-buildin hocus-pocus ridiculous, and bis the Orient, and a slew of #0. In the new society, that is a rejects —the low-1Q individuals crime of sabotage, deemed ineligible for the ruling “- 4 engineer-manager class MR. VONNEGUT here, of There are soma highly comic course, is satirizing not only the moments and some hordering on

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