Word: muted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost tear the canvas apart with their decisiveness. In the 1960s, he turned to narrow, bold, successive rows of vertical stripes. Just before he died, Louis began to stretch and frame his canvases so that the stripes ran diagonally, sprinting tensely upwards, onwards and off at the corners. Mute and vibrant, they hang stiffly like heraldic banners for some brave new world...
Westward, Ho! Back in the capital, the President moved to mute growing criticism from labor leaders by announcing that he was delaying his proposal to merge the Labor and Commerce departments. Faced with criticism from an other group-the Governors of the nation's states and territories, who have complained about the confusing proliferation of domestic programs-he had 49 of them over to the White House for a day of discussions and socializing. After a black-tie dinner with them, the President, still in his dinner jacket, choppered over to Dulles International Airport...
...once did in Flanders-that the occupants are really having a Hell of a time. Persona, his 27th film, fuses two of Bergman's familiar obsessions: personal loneliness and the particular anguish of contemporary woman. It is the story of a great stage actress (Liv Ullman), suddenly become mute and detached while starring in a production of Electra. She is afflicted with what medieval theologians called accidie-a total indifference to life. Her doctor insists that her inactivity is simply another form of roleplaying, and he sends her packing to a villa on the Baltic in the company...
...addressing himself to mounting complaints about the draft, President Johnson showed a characteristically deft and sensitive political hand. Taking youths as soon as they turn 19 should effectively mute one of the principal laments about the draft: that it keeps many young men on tenterhooks until they are 26. Doing away with most graduate deferments will all but eliminate graduate schools as a draft haven. But Johnson sidestepped for the time being unquestionably the thorniest problem of all-whether deferments should be continued for college students. Recognizing the political explosiveness of any proposal to do away with college deferments, Johnson...
...find Lyndon Johnson exactly easy to work for. Lately he has been upset by the widening of Johnson's credibility gap; Moyers passed the word to all reporters, for instance, that the President would campaign furiously after his return from Asia, then had to remain mute when Johnson denied that he had ever planned...