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Nothing really "happens"--the characters only mouth rhetoric at a breath-taking pace--yet somehow a consistency works its way out of the cross-fire of symbolism and suggesion. The situation, the action, and above all the language conspire to assure the audience that the play does indeed have ulterior meaning however obscure. Hamm's awful dilemma seems to arise partly from his grotesque alienation from nature ("show me the sea!" he asks over and over) and partly from his urge to interpret anything--or everything--in the metaphor of theater. "We are getting on, we are getting...
...second popular half-truth is that de Gaulle is trying to build a neutralist "third force." Sometimes it is given suggested that his ulterior goal is a separate French bargain with the Soviets (a prospect which doubtless alarms the Harvard community less than it does the public at large). This particular myth has gone so far that the recent renewal of an old Franco-soviet trade agreement was described in the press as the harbinger of disaster...
Several times during the evening he ridiculed gently the ulterior meanings people have read into his poems. After ending a poem with "miles to go before I sleep," the poet remarked that "that's connected with education--I've probably got a class the next morning." "You can get a lot of extra meaning out of this," he said of another, "but it's beyond...
...slim volum, The Army of the Future, which mirrored the conviction of most Frenchmen that the traditional hostility between France and Germany was "in the nature of things." The border between the two countries, wrote De Gaulle, "is an open wound; the wind that sweeps it is laden with ulterior motives...
...warned, however, that this review may have the ulterior purpose of softening up the Advocate's readership for the next issue, in which Robert Lowell and other recognized writers will end the magazine's amateur status. This plan seems especially unfortunate in view of the present issue's improved quality...