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Show -117- for the meeting and had then adjourned. " I t ' s up to us now?" the Professor's friend told them. "We've got to come up with a f i r s t - r a t e statement." "And one that makes i t damn good and clear what xre're prepared to do if our demands a r e not met," the second senator added.* The Chairman proposed that the two senators be members of the drafting committee. He then appointed the counsellor to the Young S o c i a l i s t s . ' He looked a t the Professor." "No," the Professor said, shaking his head, almost as though out of habit. But i t vecsn't habit this time. How could he t/611 them that i t was because he had forgotten his teeth? Or that he might have to drive down the Peninsula to pick up his wife? "No?" he repeated, grasping for a plausible excuse. "I think some of the younger members here should be allox^red to serve?" Because of his known ideosyncracy, the Professor's wishes were acceded to with more speed than he might have wished.5 Of the three final members of the committee, two were from the younger group? The committee would meet t h i s evening, and they would remain u n t i l they had formulated an acceptible resolution, copies of which would be prepared in the department office in time for tomorrow's meeting? x-jhich had been called for one o'clock. When the meeting adjourned, the Professor hurried to his office. He f e l t x*eak? not so much from hunger, but from a kind of pervading emptiness that seemed even to have hollowed |
