Word: muted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...white dove of peace chirps briefly, but flies off as a black widow spider of a model plane wings its way with a searching deliberateness across the rear-stage curtain. We see the bomber's victims-to-be, other grey-lady puppets. They sway and huddle together in mute terror. We feel their pain all the more acutely because, like wounded animals, they cannot articulate it. Think of Picasso's Guernica unfolding in slow motion and you have the image of these women dying. The evening ends with a jolly blare of music. The Black Angel...
...famous-H.G. Wells, Walter de la Mare, Jan Masaryk-as well as of obscure middle-European writers fleeing Nazism whom she tried to help. There are the sights and sounds of cities in crisis-Munich, Prague, Vienna, Budapest-as well as the bare cliff tops and mute-hued moors of her native Yorkshire coast...
Egypt First. Nasser's picture continues to hang in government offices instead of Sadat's, but Sadat has quickly developed a style and emphasis of his own. He has begun to mute Nasser's stress on Pan-Arabism and concentrate on Egypt's internal problems. When one of United Arab Airlines' aging Comets crashed two weeks ago in Tripoli, killing 16, Sadat grounded the other four and UAA Chairman Ahmed Tewfik Bakry as well; Egypt then leased six Ilyushin 18s from Eastern European airlines. To revamp Cairo's creaking transit system, Sadat...
...Deaf-mutes have commonly been found fit for trial, but the fact of Lang's further disabilities posed enormous problems. Not only would he be unable to understand what was happening at the trial, but he could not communicate with his attorney to help prepare a defense. The attorney, Lowell Myers, is himself deaf and specializes in representing deaf-mutes. Myers contends that Lang and the woman, who was neither deaf nor mute, were attacked while walking to her house from a nearby tavern. After the murder, the lawyer notes, Lang "went into a bar and tried...
Much of the debate prior to passage of the order centered on the legality of Cronin's temporary adjustments of 158 buildings to the current rent level. Cronin said "I regard that issue as one of the birth pains of this administration which is now mute...