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...error on the side of the angels. What is being struck on the stage of Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theater is the rarely heard chord of all-embracing humanity. This play quivers with laughter and stabs the heart. It speaks for things too long mute: love of the land (in this case, Southern Appalachia), the inviolability of the family, the rigorous ethic of hard work and the rebuke and solace of an omnipresent God. To think of that as a didactic, neo-conservative agenda is to miss the tone and temper of the work. Foxfire has already been called...
...similar tendency towards the personal trademark mars Rauch's enigmatic final scene, as one mute autumn leaf flutters slowly out of the overhead grill. But interestingly, a Mercutio and Benvolio, and their depiction as Romeo's childhood pals--avoids this tendency altogether. The women succeed, despite occasional awkwardness, precisely because their gender attracts no notice and the audience soon responds in kind...
...choosing to remain mute regarding what should possibly be done to update his plan. "My job is to shut up and hear what the committe says," he explains. "The worst thing is to get involved in the deliberations of the committee before they're through with their report...
Until several months ago, the Church was conspicuously mute on the issue of female missionaries. This silence sheds light on a fundamental tenet of Mormon gospel. Marriage and child-rearing are extolled both as a sacred duty and as the source of great personal fulfillment, and the average age at marriage among Mormons is considerably lower than the American national average. To be female and to spend one's marriageable years as a missionary, therefore, was tacitly to admit one's lack of suitors--and, by extension, one's failure to fulfill the highest purpose of any Mormon...
...sanctions. His case was clear, reasonable and forceful. "But he did not present it as the end of the free world as we know it, as Haig would have," says one of the President's senior advisers. Shultz achieved a partial success by getting the Administration to mute its retaliation against European allies who have defied the sanctions; only two companies have been hit with punitive measures so far, allowing the dispute to remain a manageable family quarrel. Once the decision was made, Shultz loyally helped coordinate actions by the Justice and Commerce departments to carry out the policy...