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...Donnerwetter!" The son of a physician in the small market town of Wedel, Holstein, young Barlach early learned to respect the mute suffering of the peasant as well as his unexpected guffaws of humor -both of which he later incorporated into his work. But it was not until his mid 30s that he found himself as an artist, after years of academic art courses at Hamburg and Dresden, followed by an unproductive trip to Paris...
Tremendous Experience. The story is compellingly told in terms of Doris L., a young woman admitted to California's Metropolitan State Hospital as a catatonic. Mute, withdrawn, her eyes blank and disregarding of the world, Doris nevertheless had a great natural dignity, an almost glacial repose that seemed invulnerable to any appeal. For 2% months a concealed camera recorded her psychiatric sessions with Dr. Louis Cholden. His slow struggle to reach a human being submerged in indifference had in it all the wire-thin inten sity of great drama. When Doris finally smiled and spoke her first word ("pretty...
What is needed is more uniformity. The University should proclaim a week of Universal Futility and end the muddlings of the snowbound. By resolving student's doubts about exams, the University could enable him to turn to a really constructive occupation--the mute and blissful contemplation of blankness. Unbothered by other cares, the student could gaze wistfully at the falling flakes, developing his soul and a death wish. Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle and other notables have expounded the virtues of silence. Is the University for liberal education? Is the University really for mysticism? We have a right to know...
Last year the Upper Colorado project was finally approved by the U.S. Senate -but its chances for House passage this year seemed doubtful. To mute the cries of the conservationists, the bill's managers agreed to drop the Echo Park dam from the House measure. Last week, while the House debated the bill, President Eisenhower made a strong plea for the bill, "an opportunity at last to treat the whole great, mighty Colorado River as a single entity, to treat it on a basin basis instead of merely local and individual. I hope we can have positive action...
...vigil of silent protest, ignoring rotten vegetables hurled by young hoodlums. As leather-lunged Prime Minister Johannes Strydom convened Parliament in joint session in the final act of his long campaign to write white supremacy into the law of his tragically divided land, the silent ladies, lined up in mute and mourning protest, seemed to be the only opponents he could not shout down...