Word: murmur
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Conversational murmur swells slightly as more arrive and claim their meals...
...tolerance” is a dicey word. It gets repeated like a mantra in these parts. Its syllables merge into the murky, hypnotic murmur of PC-speak that might be called the soundtrack to Harvard life. Tolerance is a generous word, not particularly demanding on those who use it, because it leaves lots of room for uninterrogated prejudice under a brittle veneer of civility. Tolerance accommodates statements like, “I have no problem with gay people, I just don’t see why they have to be so in-your-face about...
Shep Gurwitz, an activist on Native American issues who spoke at the event, said it is more expensive to keep a prisoner in solitary confinement than to send a student to Harvard, a comment that sent a murmur through the mostly student crowd...
...noon at the National Theatre; the characters and the play are young, full of hope and vinegar. As my editor reads this column just after noon, the 1848 Revolution is giving Marx and his followers some brazen ideas, and a dear, deaf, dead child is wandering through the inaudible murmur of adult conversation. And if you, reader, happen to be scanning these words at sunset on Saturday, know that the cast is taking one last bow, and the audience - many, I'll warrant, who have seen the trilogy before and have returned for a last glimpse of the monument...
...role than Norton’s, surely, but it’s intensely painful seeing Taymor attempting to inflate his appearance by forcing us to watch Trotsky and Kahlo staring at a beautiful Mexican vista, all while listening to Trotsky wax corny Hollywood philosophical, with uplifting music ready to murmur...