Word: mutedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is a corporate board member or main street merchant who still believes that Reagan's original concept of how to treat the economy can achieve the results desired, he wisely remains mute...
...forceful yet delicate style. Nearly every paragraph is quotable. Though his highly-publicized condemnation of the Moral Majority does not appear in this book (it doubtless will in his next), and though he is more concerned with the civic than the social dimension of education. Giamatti does not stay mute on contemporary problems. In "Power, Politics and a Sense of History"--a remarkably presumptuous title for a 4000-word essay--he declares...
...surprises-notably the suite of "hostages" by Jean Fautrier, human presences rendered down into a thick anonymous protein of paint, which were exhibited in Paris just after the Liberation (with a catalogue preface by André Malraux) and are still among the most striking images of pathos and mute, intractable survival that the war evoked from the West. The monochromes of Yves Klein, a curiously underrated compound of Duchampian dandy and body artist from the '50s, prefigure much that would happen on the conceptual fringes of the art scene...
...about the move away from city Scouting, they pass into the night. "Sure, kids today are different," says Scoutmaster Arthur Ferraro, 64, of Westerly, R.I. "But you get them out in the woods, they understand what survival means. That hasn't changed." Fires are doused, smoke rises in mute silence, the vast camp falls quiet to the sound of a bugler's taps...
...more from style than substance. Says a Reagan aide: "He's just too confrontational. If he could soften the edges slightly, it would make a big difference." Watt has been told to clear major policy announcements with the White House so that image-conscious aides can try to mute any potential public outcry...