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...cream of the 1975 crop was shepherded through Harvard Yard yesterday by fife-and-drum players on the way to two hours of Literary Exercises in Sanders Theater during the Phi Beta Kappa induction ceremony...
...down; his hips grind rhythmically; his foot stomps and his facial expressions never stop changing. If he's not accompanying himself with his Mississippi National steel-bodied acoustic guitar, then he'll play the piano or banjo or mandolin of kalimba or maracas or Spirit of '76 Fife. His raspy voice sometimes turns lyrics into a stammer reminiscent of Otis Redding. At other times, words are replaced altogether by suggestive mumbles or a bent guitar note accompanied by a telling smile. And most of the time, his audience can't help but clap, stomp and sing right along with...
...helping create and run a secret committee in 1970 for which he collected nearly $4 million for congressional candidates but had no treasurer or chairman and failed to file reports as required by law; 2) soliciting and accepting a $100,000 political contribution in 1970 from J. Fife Symington Jr., Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, in return for a pledge?which Kalmbach testified that he cleared with an unnamed White House aide?that Symington would get a higher-ranking ambassadorial post in Europe...
Died. William Fife Knowland, 65, former Republican floor leader in the U.S. Senate; by his own hand (gunshot); near Monte Rio, Calif. Knowland was appointed to the U.S. Senate in 1945 by Family Friend Governor Earl Warren after the death of Hiram W. Johnson. As majority floor leader from 1953 to 1955 and minority leader through 1958, Knowland advocated a hard line on Asian Communism and opposed the entry of Red China into the U.N. A stubborn, thunder-voiced politician, he decided to improve his presidential chances by running for the California governorship in 1958. After losing to Pat Brown...
What, finally, is the new moral of the ancient story of language? That in language, as in fife, people end up with what they want-and perhaps deserve. The cryptic Cambridge philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ur-father of the new linguistics, who spoke best in aphorisms, put it thus: "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world." One's words, for better and for worse, define one's reality, and what you say is what you get. "Melvin Maddocks