He'd passed away from a heart attack while teaching his class the literary nuances of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury.
The real problem is that, in spite of the sound and fury, health care is not the main thing on voters' minds.
The audience was eventually battered into submission by the bloated sound and hectic fury of Britain's greatest hits, but three hours felt somewhat on the long side for a show that didn't quite know how to wave goodbye.
But while those arguments continue, closer inspection shows the basic idea to be, despite the sound and fury, modest and intriguing rather than radical.
The new boss has an impressive reputation, so that, for all the sound and fury, it would ultimately have seemed churlish for shareholders to deprive him of a chance to revive the firm unless Mr Green had offered silly money, which is not his style.
And in amongst the raging debate all around the US over why this tragedy occurred, some in Tucson ponder in what possible way the sound and fury over budget deficits and health care reform could be connected to the snuffing out, on a sunny Saturday morning, of the life of a nine-year-old girl.
If in the process of raising the debt limit the initial conditions are also not changed, the outcome will remain predetermined the next time the country approaches the debt limit a lot of sound and fury amounting to nothing followed by a vote to raise the debt ceiling and get on about the business of spending more money than we have.
Yet for all the sound and fury this provoked in the British papers, there are few firm proposals on the table.
The absence of any new ideas for dealing with this is merely disguised by the sound and fury in New York.
The sound and fury, posturing and bluffing may appear a bit different in each case but the subliminal outcome is the same bondholders must share in the pain and take a haircut.
It may now seem as if all the sound and fury has changed nothing.
In one sense, that job looks less forbidding than the sound and fury suggests.
For all the sound and fury cable news makes, they signify very little as they aren't really followed anyway.
All of which means that, after the sound and fury of an election, national governments have little room for maneuver on economic policy.
Somewhere inside the sound and fury that have shrouded this project is a short, gross, and very funny series of sketches, lightly knotted together into a modern picaresque.
That is why I think the next two months will be full of Fed sound and fury, signifying nothing.
As the Bard most aptly put it centuries ago, one can be full of sound and fury yet signify nothing.
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"We get a lot of fury and a lot of sound, but when it comes to the crunch he goes and abstains, " the minister said.
Mr Waterson told BBC News Online: We have heard all this before from the Liberal Democrats but since at the election I ensured my majority went up, I'm pretty relaxed about this sound and fury.
To the Muslim Brotherhood's fury, ALAC is a way of doing it in a constitutionally sound and highly teachable way.
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