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...lawgiver is unknown, but the saying is an old joke among engineers. * John Dos Passes, in U.S.A., wrote an epitaph for Taylor: "On the morning of his fiftyninth birthday, when the nurse went into his room to look at him at fourthirty, he was dead with his watch in his hand...
...extension, the telephone network, shows symptoms of a nervous breakdown? For a distressing number of months, it has. When there should be a dial tone, all too often there is only silence or a snap, crackle and pop. Sometimes a call connects to someone else's conversation. The epitaph for much of 1970 America could be "Sorry, the number that you have dialed is not a working number...
...fitting epitaph might be that example of dry British wit with which Russell closed his last American TV appearance: "Don't ever be absolutely sure of anything-not even if I tell...
Innis has been talking with white segregationist Southern Governors about setting up separate black-run school systems. "Integration is dead," Innis claims. "Its epitaph has been in the coming for a hell of a long time. Integration came to be viewed by the civil rights aristocracy not as a means to an end, but as an end in itself...
...none materializes, the journal's epitaph could be a paraphrase of a sentiment expressed by Ransom about a poet in the Kenyon in 1964: Having achieved all the wisdom that was available to it, the Kenyon was ready to subside, happy but used up, into the annihilation of death...