Word: mutedly
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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...
...purpose is artistic as well as moral, and his characters talk and behave with appalling plausibility. As for Mauberley, the choice could not be more apposite. Ezra Pound's bloodless hero did not merely suffer from the disease of his age; he was the disease of his age, mute until it was too late, sensitive only for No. 1, fatally solipsistic to the end. As catastrophe beckons, the Duchess of Windsor is heard to complain: "We are led into the light and shown such marvels as one cannot tell . . . and then they turn out all the lights...
Virtually any other subject including ones of far greater importance like the fate of financial aid and the ethical implications of the University's stock portfolio cligits more candid discussion among College officials. When Harvard's unique and often inconsistent alcohol policy is brought up however responses are usually mute or terse...
Feeling a bit like a Martian. I hovered around the edges, mute, having nothing to add. RBI's? ERA's? Pitching stats? It meant nothing to me. It was then that I finally realized something that has been welling up inside me since I was very little: I hate baseball. There--I've said it. Address all hate mail to the Crimson, please...