Word: muted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Children of War. The streets of Saigon contain an incredible panoply of Hieronymus Bosch figures-limbless veterans stumping about in camouflaged fatigues, hideously napalmed women nursing children on the sidewalks, deaf-mute prostitutes selling their wares in sign language, and lepers holding hats in gnarled, swollen hands. But few are more poignant than the ever-present "street children...
...direct experience that this century has had to offer. Like the six-year-old boy in The Painted Bird, he was separated from his Jewish parents during World War II and survived as a waif in the Polish countryside. Like Chance, he suffered a physical injury that left him mute for five years. After the war he was reunited with his parents and placed in a school for the handicapped...
...wrong. I don't think it will hurt the U.S." Maybe not. Yet the crisis of conscience caused by the Calley affair is a graver phenomenon than the horror following the assassination of President Kennedy. Historically, it is far more crucial. Within its limits, the Warren Commission served to mute much of the national agitation that ensued after Kennedy's death. Nixon has ruled out a Warren-style review of the Calley case itself, but there are suggestions inside the Administration and out that a comparably nonpartisan commission explore the whole question of American conduct of the Viet...
Further troop withdrawals may mute criticism in the U.S., but the war has lasted so long, to such demoralizing effect upon Americans, that nothing short of total and final evacuation will ever completely ease their minds. Long habit has ingrained a sort of sullen skepticism about the war, an incredulity that is often oddly mixed with boredom. The night of his television interview last week, Nixon drew only 14% of the networks' prime-time audience; the other viewers chose a movie on NBC or Doris Day and Carol Burnett...
...various members of the Harvard community have laid to rest any speculation that your colleagues have such political punishment in store for you. At the same time, we fell that, just as it is improper to purge a colleague because we disagree with him, it is equally improper to mute fundamental disagreements because of personal friendship and respect...