Word: muted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just." Zelo Shemansky counters his wife's attacks by going into fits, "twitching like a toilet chain." While balancing the Shemansky powers, crippled son Barish fiendishly maximizes tension and antagonism. Then there are the long-absent daughter, Yahina (another Ma in the making), her husband, Feivet, a deaf mute, and her son, Pildesh, who while urinating from a fourth floor window, tumbles out. The savior of this twisted family is old, orange-eyed. Vossen Gleich, with his lopsided chest ("one side sunk in, the other humped and swollen to his chin"), who ends his virginity with poor, sickly Mrs. Charpolsky...
FEDERICO CASTELLON-Dintenfass, 18 East 67th. An admirable show of the Spanish-born American absent from the New York scene for eleven years. A recent Society of American Graphic Artists' prizewinner, Castellon did these mute, melancholy lithographs in Paris. One of his titles speaks for them all: The End of Dreams. Through...
...with the play, G. Quay Quenel does not act the part badly, but the part should have been totally different. That Manders can be taken in by such a buffoon exceeds belief. Etain O'Malley is better as Engstrom's daughter, Regina, especially when she remains sprightly but mute...
This steely female terror is challenged by Randle McMurphy (Kirk Douglas), a rugged, open-hearted rebel who bristles at rules. McMurphy is classified as a "psychopathic" brawler. He tries to put spunk into the patients and when his good-humored kindliness restores speech to a chronic mute, Nurse Ratched is remorseless...
Throughout the book, in alternating sections, Carruth's narrator presents himself to the reader in a strange double exposure-as he appeared in the early 1950s, when he had his first breakdown, and as he appears now, writing while caring for a deaf-mute as atonement for past sins. In the earlier period the narrator is (as Carruth was) a poet, editor, and a nihilist who thinks that "1 must be really half dead" but is not particularly disturbed by the fact: most of contemporary America, he implies, is in pretty much the same shape. The agent...