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...ceremonies. "No use applauding; you don't know what you're getting," he told an audience at Emerson Hall. "To make sure the evening isn't completely wasted. I'll read a poem by another man first..."He prefaced dream song #29 with a mock-heroic line: "Prepare to weep, ladies and gentlemen. Saul Bellow and I almost kill ourselves laughing about the dream songs and various chapters in his novels, but other people feel bad. Are you all ready to feel bad?" And more sternly," this is not a cultural occasion. No instruction is taking place...
...church bells reminded Jaurès of Schiller's Song of the Bells: "I summon the living, I mourn the dead, I break the furnaces." Cried Jaurès: "I call on the living that they may defend themselves from the monster who appears on the horizon. I weep for the countless dead now rotting in the East. I will break the thunderbolts of war which menace from the skies." Eighteen months later, Jaurès was dead of bullets fired by a youthful assassin who found such pacifism unpatriotic. On the day of his burial...
Congressmen offered the most pungent remarks. Sen. Dirksen said the demonstrations were "enough to make any person loyal to this country weep." Mississippi's Sen. Stennis urged the administration to "immediately move to jerk this movement up by the roots and grind it to bite." Sen. Kuchel said students who burned their draft cards were "sowing the seeds of treason...
...battalions and the units, but I know them all, every one. I have seen them in a thousand streets of a hundred towns in every state in this Union-working and laughing and building and filled with hope and life. And I think I know, too, how their mothers weep and how their families sorrow. And this is the most agonizing and the most painful duty of your President." But, he added, "I also know, as a realistic public servant, that as long as there are men who hate and destroy we must have the courage to resist...
...other night," she says matter-of-factly, "I was amazed at the high level of my competence. I know every technical trick. But I don't quite reach the plateau of the great poet. Eliot, Auden, Yeats-there are poets whose genius is so great I could weep over them...