Word: mutedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first scene opens in an Air Force wardroom which looks suspiciously like a grammar school classroom. The typical company--by now a familiar fixture in anti-war plays--consists of mute "idiots" and insubordinate and sharp-witted soldiers who clown around until, inevitably, one of them dies. As the characters have been seen before, the lines, too, have a certained hackneyed ring: "We're a peace-loving people and that's why we are going to bomb Constantinople off the map." "It's not our's to reason why. It's yours to do as you're told...
There is no certainty that it can pass, however, and so the commission may after all expire on schedule by month's end. If so, it will die mute. Since a quorum of four is needed to transact any business, the three commissioners remaining after last week's firings cannot even convene an official meeting. Nor, among other things, can they even formally issue a report, drafted in October, that complains that the Administration's budget and staff cuts have hamstrung the enforcement of equal rights laws...
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...