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...have suspected many a time," he continued, "that the meaning is something added to the verse." The words have a beauty beyond meaning; we feel the beauty before we think the meaning. "Therefore, we do not have to commit ourselves to a meaning. . . . The idea of words being an algebra comes from dictionaries. I don't want to be unfair to dictionaries . . . but we think that explanations exhaust the words...
...students, of course, had slogans of their own. Some McCarthy workers sported buttons reading "We Try Harder"-in Hebrew. Posters announced: "God Isn't Dead-He's Just Lonely-But He Might Commit Suicide March 12th. It's Up to You." That same sense of last stand desperation was echoed in a primary-eve plaint: "Over 40%, we go on to Wisconsin; 30%, back to school; 20%, we burn our draft cards; 10%, we leave the country." When the results came in, it was on to Wisconsin, where last week a hard-core cadre...
WIDERBERG is not sure where he is going. He introduces one conflict, then drops it. Sparre's soldier friend tries to shame Elvira into leaving Sparre by telling her that Sixten's deserted wife tried to commit suicide. Elvira runs away, but 30 seconds later Sparre catches her, tells her that his friend's story was a lie, and everything is fine again...
...appealing idea, everyone agreed, but how much will it cost and who will pay? All the houses were cordial to the plan, but as one master said "we don't have the money to pay for them, and are hesitant to commit any money to maintenance when we have no idea how much that will be." The money would presumably come then from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences budget, and last week Mosteller put an approximate price tag on the console plan: $40,000 for a year's total expenses in all the houses...
...question confronting Clifford and every other top policymaker from the President on down is whether to commit scores of thousands of additional troops to Viet Nam to regain the momentum lost when the Communists launched their Tet offensive in January. U.S. commanders are pleading for 100,000 to 200,000 more troops beyond the 525,000 already authorized. Seven or eight separate plans are under study at the Pentagon, all calling for sizable reinforcements and all entailing substantial political risks for the President...