Word: muted
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...being born. Other than this prophetic poem, and "Crossing the Water," there is no poem in this collection, in its entire, that is sterling. There are lines, however, here and there, and verses which strike a silence to which the knowledge of having found something lovely returns on mute feet, and meekly; as Sylvia Plath would have it. "This is the silence of astounded souls...
...Apartments of the Princes or, familiarly, the Cage. There, behind fences, male children were able to grow to manhood and even old age safe from almost any danger-or knowledge of the outside world. On occasion, an aggressive mother still managed to send an executioner-traditionally a deaf-mute eunuch-into the Cage to strangle her son's rivals...
...bitterness deepened when British troops killed two men, one of them a deaf mute: the army said he had been waving a pistol, while Catholic bystanders claimed he was unarmed. Ulster's Catholics were also angered because the internment without trial had not applied equally to extremists on the other side; none of the 232 still held were Protestant. Elaborate rumors of their mistreatment circulated through Northern Ireland's six counties, leading William Cardinal Conway, Catholic Primate of All Ireland, to charge that "there is prima-facie evidence that entirely innocent men are being subjected to humiliating...
...only feels; he remembers (his Midwest childhood) and he fantasies (playing a hand of cards with Jesus Christ). After months of mute anguish, Joe is assigned a pretty young nurse who takes pity on him and even makes love to him. Joe eventually hits on the notion of communicating by tapping out Morse code with his head against the pillow...
This summer the coffee grounds have been telling a different tale. Since January, freight rates have dropped to their lowest levels in 14 years, sending many shipowners scrambling just to keep even with loan payments on their vessels. Off Piraeus, 250 merchant ships lie at anchor, mute testimony to the inability of their owners to find cargoes. Similar scenes of placid but unintended idleness can be found at anchorages throughout Europe...