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If it's any consolation to Emmons, Hammerstein's very last lyric, "Edelweiss" from The Sound of Music , is invariably assumed to be a real Austrian folk song--indeed, a few years back, the White House went further, playing it at a state banquet for the Austrian president, under the impression that it was the country's national anthem.
In the 1990s, non-incidental master's in the sciences—in other words, intentionally terminal degrees, not consolation prizes for failing out of graduate school—crept into engineering and applied mathematics, too, as companies grew more reliant on computational analysis and hired accordingly.
Whatever consolation it might afford Americans, the British are with them in their ignorance of the difference between fewer and less:
In 1995 it established a private "consolation fund" for restitution, but most surviving comfort women have refused the money, demanding a public apology and public compensation.
As the song said, he found his consolation in the stardust of a song.