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Thursday, July 5, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Ierry the Cat Leaves After Celebrating an Exciting 4th
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of things, most of which he was wearing. There was a tricolor top on his head, making him look like Uncle Sam in the "Your Country Needs You" posters.
Stuck into his fur were tiny flags—the
strips and stripes—and he carried a huge
huge backpack.
I had to use both hands to get my lower back into place. I still didn't know what to do.
Jerry smiled broadly at me through I remembered now there was just a touch of sadness in that smile. He came close to me, and I saw him. I said I saw the button he were over his heart.
"STICK WITH Dick!" Jerry, where did you get that button?"
"Oh, these are difficult to bye," said Jerry with a superior grin. "You either get them in the mail (in plain wrappers), or at an entrance, next to where they keep the yummo."
"What the heck is the yunno," I started to say, but Jerry explained quite adequately
with elaborate motions of his hand. I decided to change the subject. If that was where these buttons had ended up, I didn't want to even talk about it. Mentally, I cursed American retail procedures, marketing experts, button manufacturers, fickle Republicans and Gallup pollsters all in one breath.
JERRY HELD the big flag out to me. He wanted it displayed in front of the house. I told him that was one thing he would have to do himself. I have a thing about flags. The last time I had anything to do with flags, machine gun bullets were spattering all around me, and I still haven't got over the experience.
Jerry accepted my explanation with sympathy. Five minutes later, he had the flag up and was back. He knew I was a hit and he'd been doing it and decided to enlighten me.
"I am used to speaking in the highest circles, Jerry countered, and got my next word.
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who never to himself hath said, This is my own countryland ." Jerry finished.
"Breathes there the man with soul so dead, who never . . . " he began.
I threw a pillow at the middle of the room, where he had struck a pose.
THE NEXT DAY we just drove around Lawrence looking at people in patriotic red,
I had this warm feeling in my heart as Jerry was speaking. I had wondered about my feline friend for some time now, especially after his recent activities. But here he was, perhaps a greater patron than me, with a second helping of cat food. We slept.
He paused, looked at me, and then went into a long spiel about patriotism, about the Founding Fathers and about unity in the nation during times of stress.
"SHUT UP, Jerry," I said. "Must you speak in circles."
"No, I don't think so," jerry announced. "If they didn't give two hoots that would be dangerous. After all, isn't the basis of this democracy freedom of expression? Sure it is. Those who wield power can only avoid harming those who have the right to do something about it with verbal roughage. I don't want any part of a constipated democracy."
"I M'T WITH YOU a thousand per cent, Jerry," I said. "I 'sit a itty bit, though, that most people are always running the country and the government down?"
The fireworks were simply glorious and after that Jerry and I hauled a cache of bottles so we could play to the hilt the part of red-blooded (alcohol content 15 per cent) Americans.
At 3 a.m. we were staggering back home, leaning on each other for support, my bartonite and Jerry's treble joined in an unusual rendition of "The Stars and the Stripes." Both of us had tears streaming down our eyes and so did the people we passed on the road, though for different reasons.
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We stopped where a whole lot of young people were gathered, vowed the Republic was here to stay, waved to police passing by in their patrol cars. The kids out there really liked Jerry and asked if he went to school in Lawrence.
To the editor:
blue and white, looking at Old Glory all over the place. It was a beautiful day. And it felt good to be in America.
I would like to correct some possible misunderstandings reflected in Monday's Kansan report of my lecture on Shakespeare's women.
First, I did not say that Kate is a stereotyped character. The statements about Kate were part of a larger point in the discussion that led to humanization of older stereotypes. The emphasis in that discussion was that Kate and Petruchio share a clearer and more imaginative perception of reality than the more conventional characters in the same story.
"NAW, I'm just a plumber what's plumb "baw," jerry shrured ungrammatically, practically failing on his face and breaking the wrist. When he left Jerry to be careful if he was driving home.
dragged him home. We went to sleep full of the spirit of the day.
Lecturer Corrects Shakespeare Talk
Second, Viola was not directly contrasted to Kate. She was discussed as one of several characters whose words and actions deflate the message. Petrachan images of romantic love.
Third, my comments concerning Lady Macbeth during the discussion period do not reflect all Renaissance ideas about women in power. More than one Renaissance woman exercised power in her own right—most notably Shakespeare's sovereign, whose observation was simply that Shakespeare did not portray a woman in this position.
In the morning Jerry was gone.
'Aw, I don't have a car. No car. Had one,
nough. My last boss job when it was noun-
tually difficult.
Thank you for printing this clarification.
ALL HE HAS left me is a brief note.
I cut into what might have been the start of Jerry's career as a comedian and
assistant professor of English
Dykes said that after he received the recommendations he would contact the persons about the position. After Dykes met with the Board of Regents for final approval,
"When we get the names from the committee we will do our own investigating to find the best prospect from our point of view." Dykes said.
SOURCES IN the athletic department indicated that Dykes was working on his own a great deal and that the search team was looking for him. Wanted greatly in the past several months.
WALKER IS currently the assistant director for business at the University of North Carolina. He has been assistant athletic director since last July and was previously an assistant football coach of charge of recruiting at North Carolina.
Dykes, who has done extensive interviewing on his own, will meet with the search committee at 10 a.m. today in the office of the chancellor's suite in Strong Hall.
Dykes said that he had been meeting regularly with Shenk and the search committee and that his part in the selection process would only happen when he received the recommendations.
Rohe is currently the executive football coach at Virginia Tech where he directs the recruiting program. He was a track coach at the University of Tennessee, the same school that Dykes left to become chancellor at KU.
Butters is currently an assistant athletic director at Duke University where he is in charge of the athletic scholarship fund. He is a former pitcher in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization and was baseball coach at Duke from 1968 to 171.
Dykes: Upcoming AD Pick
NAGLE CURRENTLY holds the post of athletic director at Washington State University. He has been at Washington State for the past two years and is a former head football coach at the University of Iowa and the University of Utah.
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"Dear Compatriot (it says), I am going back to take the consequences, with others, of all I may have done wrong. It takes a great deal of patriotism to be able to admit to your country that you were thank. Thank God, yesterday gave me the courage to do this. Besides only in such an admission is it possible that I have faith in the American people's greatest masse of heart. If I admit my guilt, I know I will be forgiven. Goodbye."
in Air-Conditioned Comfort
at the
Dykes said he couldn't say if these four names would be the ones he would be.
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"I don't know in fact if those are the four names I will receive," he said.
to Dykes are Ray Nagel, Tom Butters,
Chuck Rhoe and Clvde Walker.
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