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...wave of terror that swept through the ranks of the enlightened as MacArthur's plane approached these shores-it was Hitler entering the Chancellery all over again: nothing could save us now! And then the dark days of the dictatorship of Senator McCarthy, when printing presses stood mute, when freedom of expression went underground in the universities, and radio-TV stations and the lights of Broadway and Hollywood were extinguished; and when roving mobs of Legionnaires cast into the overflowing dungeons any government employee or plain citizen heard expressing "an unpopular opinion." So our most reliable watchmen -from Justice...
...boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r"; "The paths of glory lead but to the grave"; "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen"; "Some mute inglorious Milton"; "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife"; "The noiseless tenor of their...
Mandarin & Swahili. Beyond that tiny circle, no one paid much attention to his system. The academicians ignored him, and for a while so did his own school. It was not until the Blind and Deaf-Mute Congress of 1878 that Braille's dots won final international recognition. After that, the system began to spread-to the Mandarin of China, the Araucanian of Chile, the Swahili of East Africa, to 49 different languages...
Thalberg Syndrome. Novelist Stephen Longstreet scratches the surface of Hollywood by merely scratching its back. Infected with a bad case of producer worship, or Thalberg Syndrome, The Beach House implies that its hero is a mute, inglorious Milton gagged by a lack of cash and artistic credit. But as Novelist Longstreet portrays him, he seems more like a shark whose teeth have gone...
Paula (Columbia) works up a rich soap-opera lather over the problems of its heroine (Loretta Young). She runs down an orphan boy (Tommy Rettig) in her car, and the boy becomes mute as a result of the accident. Childless Paula adopts the boy and sets about teaching him to talk again, although she realizes that once he regains the power of speech he may identify her to the police as the hit-&-run driver. To complicate matters a bit more, the slightest scandal would ruin the chances of Paula's husband (Kent Smith) becoming dean of his college...