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Although he is back on his job as professor of economics at Yale, the loss of portfolio has rendered Retired Presidential Adviser Wallich anything but mute. He regularly writes editorials on economics for the Washington Post, has articles in three current highbrow magazines: Harper's, the American Scholar, and the Yale Review. In all three, Economist Wallich hopefully beams his message at a particular reader-President John F. Kennedy. Items...
...around us, particularly among our elders, unfilled and frustrated human potentialties, personalities ground flat, material want, and ruined lives. . . . Small wonder that the first post-war generation could be called silent. In view of this history, 'mute' would have been better. We demand your patience; we learning how to talk." from an editorial in New University Thought...
...valuable air time?" No one knew, and nobody thought of asking her why she had agreed to discuss The Clan in the first place. And so the program lurched toward the murky end. Gleason: "I'm loaded." Lemmon: "I know that." Mannes: "I feel like a deaf mute in a field of hog callers." Joe E. Lewis: "Out of the mouths of babes very often comes-oatmeal...
...small-town Southern youth with remarkable precision. The Morning and the Evening is a carefully controlled yarn, which has as its hero the village idiot of a small Mississippi town. What seems at first like another Southern Gothic construction, with heartstrings, quickly becomes something more important. No near-helpless, mute man of 40 can arouse an emotion much stronger than pity, but the reactions of neighbors to his helplessness and his own vulnerability to cruelty can tell a great deal about man's eternal debt to his fellows...
...Mute Jake suffers little from cruelty, actually: boys chase him, loafers of no great intelligence use him as the butt for broad humorous gibes. But when his older brother runs out on the family and his widowed mother dies, the small community becomes their brother's keeper. They fail him, most of them, and after their effort to shuck him off onto the insane asylum collapses, the deeper tragedy follows. Author Williams is talking about the failure of human responsibility not through vindictiveness but through indifference. She does it with sureness, for she knows her villagers and she knows...