Word: muted
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Dick Butler, supervisor of American League umpires: "If you took three words out of the English language, most players and umpires would be mute...
...characters even loses the gift of speech. She is the daughter of an Irish father and an English mother whose forced separation suggests the rift between their closely related countries. The child, Imelda, is even more symbolic of the price exacted by violence and hatred. Rendered mute and autistic by horror, she is a pathetic representative of the past, present and future. Says her father, Willie Quinton: "It happens sometimes that the insane are taken to be saints of a kind. Legends in Ireland are born almost every...
...flops. Hopelessly inept as a pedagogue and judge of children, Brill blames his school's failure on its students, whom he dismisses as "commoners, weeds, the children of plumbers." Given such contempt, he fails to recognize genius when it comes his way. Beulah Lilt, who sits immobile | and mute in the classroom, is destined to become a great artist. Poor Beulah! i A quiet, tiny child, self-immured, she seems to suffer from "an unremitting bewilderment," much like the young Cynthia Ozick, as she recalls herself. In the novel, Ozick has reserved some of her most luminous prose...
...Dinah's brother; her best friend Susie; an analyst; the family doctor and his wife; a funeral director; and, of course, Sam (Baritone Chester Ludgin). Balanchine's famous dictum that there are no mothers-in-law in ballet may not quite apply to opera, which is not mute, but the common sense behind it ought to be respected. A Quiet Place is too heavily populated, its relationships obscured by a wordy, awkward book that sinks whatever chance the opera had of being truly satisfying...
...easier to crack neurotic one-liners than to tell a story. But in Baby with the Bath Water, at the American Repertory Theater at Harvard, he wobbles toward a narrative. The play follows Daisy (impersonated first by a girl doll, then by a hairy young man) from terrifying infancy, mute childhood and promiscuous adolescence to touchingly optimistic parenthood...