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"Cat's in the Cradle" is a folk rock song by American singer-songwriter Harry Chapin, from his fourth studio album, Verities & Balderdash (1974). The single topped the US Billboard Hot 100 in December 1974. As Chapin's only number-one song, it became the best known of his work and a staple for folk rock music.
Cat's Cradle is a satirical postmodern novel, with science fiction elements, by the American writer Kurt Vonnegut.Vonnegut's fourth novel, it was first published on March 18, 1963, [1] exploring and satirizing issues of science, technology, the purpose of religion, and the arms race, often through the use of morbid humor.
Chapin recorded a total of 11 albums from 1972 until his death in 1981. All 14 singles that he released became hits on at least one national music chart. Chapin's best-known songs include "Taxi" and "Cat's in the Cradle." As a dedicated humanitarian, Chapin fought to end world hunger.
With Cat's Cradle (1963), Allen wrote, "Vonnegut hit full stride for the first time". [66] The narrator, John, intends to write of Dr. Felix Hoenikker, one of the fictional fathers of the atomic bomb, seeking to cover the scientist's human side. Hoenikker, in addition to the bomb, has developed another threat to mankind, "ice-nine", solid water ...
Leonard Susskind's The Cosmic Landscape calls Cat's Cradle and its use of ice-nine a "cautionary tale about madness and instability in a world full of nuclear weapons", as well as being based on the real scientific principle of metastability. Saying that, while in the real world, liquid water at room temperature is stable, it explains that in ...
A granfalloon, in the fictional religion of Bokononism (created by Kurt Vonnegut in his 1963 novel Cat's Cradle), is defined as a "false karass".That is, it is a group of people who affect a shared identity or purpose, but whose mutual association is meaningless.
The project expands a vacant, 8,800-square-foot building at 107 Brewer Lane into a two-story, up to 14,000-square-foot club, about 1,000 square feet larger than Cat’s Cradle, according to county ...
The Cat's in the Cradle: 1981 "Just a Country Boy" 35 — "While the Feeling's Good" (with Margo Smith) 26 — Non-album single 1982 "Last of the Silver Screen Cowboys" 43 — The Singing Cowboy "Cowboy in a Three Piece Business Suit" 44 — "Ride Cowboy Ride" 85 — 1983 "The Air That I Breathe" 37 — On the Move: 1984 "Sweet Rosanna" 44 —