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...Joyce's readers. Bloom saw the "mellow yellow smellow mellons" of Molly's rump as a kind of ultimate healer of all his tensions, of his conflicting sense of envy, jealousy, abnegation, and equanimity, because they were "insusceptible of moods of impression or of contrarities of expression, expressive of mute immutable mature animality...
...ashes of Sodom and Gomorrah remain as mute evidence of the judgment of God on this...
Bentley claims that his show is "theater of fact." True, he has invented not a spoken line of it, but facts are mute. They are animated by climates of opinion, and that social context is missing. Bentley simply relies on popular present attitudes to validate lofty moral judgments on the past. At the time the hearings were held, wartime amity with the Soviet Union had been crushed by the descent of the Iron Curtain, and there was a not unnatural suspicion, supported by proof which exists to this very moment, that the Russians were out to Communize the world...
...many of the demands for better terms of trade and greater financial aid contained in the call for a New International Economic Order (adopted at the U.N. last year over the objections of the industrialized nations). Thus, the Third World was compelled to focus on specific U.S. proposals and mute recriminatory rhetoric. Although most Third World capitals had yet to study the lengthy proposals in detail, initial reaction of their U.N. delegates was receptive and even warily favorable. "A very positive statement," said the ambassador of one radical African state. "A tour de force," commented an Asian diplomat. The tone...
...coup more than 8,000 had been arrested. Of these, 6,188 were banished into exile. Another 3,500 were subsequently sent to ESA torture centers. One prosecution witness, former Colonel Spyridon Moustaklis, 49, was unable to answer questions because brain damage caused by beatings had left him mute and semiparalyzed. Communicating by groans and gestures, glaring at the defendants, Moustaklis clumsily tore his shirt open to reveal the scars that marked his body. Said his wife: "We have a little girl who has never heard her father's voice." Verdicts on the 31 accused, which could lead...