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...supporting a compromise bill-give the Congress a chance to get the civil rights bill behind it before adjournment. The tax-cut bill, which has already passed the House, remains the subject of lengthy hearings before the Senate Finance Committee, chaired by Virginia's Conservative Democrat Harry Byrd; even after Johnson's speech, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield could promise only that the bill would be first on the agenda for floor debate when the Senate reconvenes next January...
...testified on the tax bill. Gore sarcastically criticized Heller's economics, and Ribicoff snapped: "I think the Administration is painting itself into a pretty tight corner. You are going to have to spend more." Heller got such a rough going-over from the liberals that conservative Harry Byrd hardly had to do any work...
...postscript to my yesterday's letter about your review of my Henry James And The Jacobites, I now perceive that I have done Mr. Max Byrd a gross injustice...
Whose consciousness about what is not Mr. Byrd's concern here, "charmed" as he is by Henry James's "personal touch." Now this is the kind of Jacobite Can't that drove me to distraction--and to laughter--during five long years. Fellow students of Harvard, I submit you have a concealed Jacobite Fellow-Traveler at the very center of your communications network! Fellow students of Harvard, I ask you to beware of these Jacobites! I say the problem is not to "Stamp Out Henry James"--as has been suggested--but to keep a stern watch upon these hidden Jamesians...
Less impressive was the William Byrd Suite arranged by Gordon Jacob. Byrd's music was written for small groups; his light melodies and whim-ical tempos are either lost or made heavy in the transcription for a band of more than 100 players. Walker did his best to preserve the spirit of Byrd and now and then he succeeded. But in the exposed woodwind passages, which should have been airy, 26 clarinets were far too many...