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...carry too many woes. You get thrown all the time . . . It's all those coronations and that changing of the guard. They hooked you, and you can't get loose." Walker makes it back to the States by Greyhound, bound for home, still clutching his now mute bongo drums...
...home is equally crucial to victory. In belated recognition of that fact, the President last week commanded Democratic Party workers to spread the word across the land that "America will persevere until peace comes to Viet Nam." Thus, there could no longer be speculation that Johnson intends to mute the war issue between now and November...
Princeton Theologian Paul Ramsey observes that "ours is the first attempt in recorded history to build a culture upon the premise that God is dead." In the traditional citadels of Christendom, grey Gothic cathedrals stand empty, mute witnesses to a rejected faith. From the scrofulous hobos of Samuel Beckett to Antonioni's tired-blooded aristocrats, the anti-heroes of modern art endlessly suggest that waiting for God is futile, since life is without meaning...
...bucolic. But anything bucolic in this repertory production at New York's Lincoln Center is lost in the grinding whirr of revolving stages and the clanking rise and fall of scenery. The music, crucial to any decent Brecht production, seems to have been composed by a tone-deaf mute. Watching the cast's birdlike masks and flaming Oriental finery is far better than watching their acting, for the troupe is about as playful as a gang of work elephants piling teak...
Even the ragtag New York Rangers refused to lie down. After handing the Hawks a third straight shutout in New York, they skated into Chicago hellbent on making it four. The 20,000 home-town fans who had sardinepacked themselves into the 17,100-capacity Chicago Stadium sat in mute agony as the Hawks fell behind 2-0. Hull could do nothing. Then in the third period, Chicago warmed the ice. And minutes later, with the score 2-1, the Rangers were penalized a man. It looked like Hull's chance. Up went an expectant, hopeful cheer...