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COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN:Ahem. I am most proud, Dean Taliped
and honored colleagues, to have been the head
of this, my last committee, whose report
and urgent recommendations--

TALIPED:Make it short;
I've little time: appointments, letters, lunch
with six assistant deans, and then a bunch
of meetings until five. Get to the facts.

COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN:[Aside]
Respect for his elders is what this fellow lacks.
[TO TALIPED]
I mean to, Mister Dean. The facts are here
in our report: complete, unvarnished, clear --

TALIPED: [Aside]
And laced with purple passages, I'll bet.
Of all the speech-professors that I've met,
here in Cadmus and back where I used to teach,
not one could make a clear, unvarnished speech.
[TO COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN]
No need to read it: summarize what's in it.

COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN:[Aside]
We waste two weeks;hecan't spare a minute.
[TO TALIPED]
Very well, sir; I'll forego analysis
of our problems, and of certain fallacies
inherent in some proposals for relief --
though it's quite worth hearing. Also, to be brief,
I'll skip our truly moving peroration