Word: muted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thank God that the "U.N. stands mute and immobile" in Viet Nam today. "Keeping the peace" is not enough to save the freedom-loving peoples of the world...
Today, while the biggest war since Korea blazes in Southeast Asia, the U.N. stands mute and immobile. Red China, which the U.S. so far has managed to blackball from the U.N. as an international outlaw, once clamored to get in; now it sneers at the U.N. and threatens to set up a rival organization. Peking's ally, Indonesia, walked out trailing invective. Charles de Gaulle drops acid denunciations of what he calls "the Disunited Nations," and in a sense he is right. The General Assembly is now in adjournment until fall, having found itself unable to accomplish anything since...
...change in the whole history of mankind." The public, too, has begun to sense the power of the computer for good and evil. Cartoonists delight in giving computers robotlike stature and minds of their own that like to play tricks on ordinary mortals, and computers have been made the mute but decisive villains of three recent bestselling novels. The science of computers, called cybernetics after the Greek word for steersman, is the subject of an endless round of study and discussion devoted to pondering both the problems and opportunities that confront what social scientists call "the cybernated generation...
This reaction to Lewis' song stressed his belief that affection, although mute in modern poetry, is not dead in man. "The simple wish to be alive is the inarticulate man's hope and the poet's Iyric impulse," he said...
...that reason for trying to muzzle Mclntire? With a classic failure to be tolerant toward people or ideas they oppose, a lot of liberal groups want to mute his voice. More than 40 organizations-including the Greater Philadelphia Council of Churches, the N.A.A.C.P., the Philadelphia chapter of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League, and the Roman Catholic weekly Commonweal-asked the FCC to ban the sale of radio station WXUR in Media, Pa., to Mclntire's Faith Theological Seminary in nearby Elkins Park, which trains preachers for his American Council of Christian Churches and other fundamentalist churches...