Word: muted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Noisy Mute. In July Brazilians were told that the cost of living had spiraled upward a dizzying 70% in a year. It now takes 850 cruzeiros to buy a dollar (up from 500 a year ago). Eight major unions threatened strikes unless they got raises ranging from 40% to 90%, and dairies vowed to turn off the milk if they were not allowed a 50% price increase. Most troublesome of all, the army wanted more money...
Brazil's 100,000-man army likes to think of itself as the "great mute," strong in power, silent in politics. Unlike many Latin American armed forces, it has yet to foist a military dictatorship on the country. In a century and a half, it has overthrown a Portuguese king, two Brazilian emperors, a president, a dictator, and even a would-be military strongman. But every coup, the brass likes to boast, was a direct translation of the popular will. True to tradition, the army today is an all-too-faithful reflection of the nation-divided, discontented and quarrelsome...
...usual labels apply to the Duke. He doesn't play Dixieland, he doesn't play bop; he plays a brand of music which is his own, and which has survived decades of fads. Although he uses techniques which have gone out of style, such as the wa-wa trumpet mute, Ellington never sounds dated. It is not so much that he has changed with the times; the times are out of breath trying to change with him. With such soloists as Johnny Hodges, Cootie Williams and Cat Anderson, Ellington's orchestra remains the best big band in the world...
...President Kennedy's critics. Only David Riesman--who continues questioning our assumptions about American society (though more and more quietly)--and Barrington Moore, Jr.--who shrilly calls down the wrath of God upon bourgeois society upon the slightest provocation--could be called radicals. Harvard's physical scientists have been mute: increasingly dependent on government money for their research, their loyalties are perhaps bought along with their talents. Hence, excepting the abortive campaign for Senator of H. Stuart Hughes last fall and the activities of the (quiescent) Committees of Correspondence organized two years ago, student radicalism has grown at Harvard without...
...nothing more architectural to them than an occasional bridge or a range of steps-and to them White lent the best of his sense of color. White's skies, like Turner's, open on a sudden drenching spectrum, but. unlike Turner, the colors are never more than mute. White's palette, even at its rawest, never offered an indelicate hue: violet was his moodiest color...