Word: mutedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...across a player (Andrew Gardner) and his acting troupe, touring the countryside with their bawdy plays of "blood, love and rhetoric." Gardner displays just the right blend of braggadacio and jaded wisdom, as when he informs the mixed-up pair that "uncertainty is the normal state." The troupe, a mute foursome of half-wits, is perfectly, wonderfully imbecilic...
...officials tried to mute the matter, hoping that a cooling of rhetoric would allow a quiet solution. "The object is to save face for everyone," said a White House spokesman. "We're trying to find a way through the maze." Despite reports that the Administration was ready to retaliate, President Reagan postponed making a public statement on the issue until at least Monday. Instead, Reagan sent a private letter to Gorbachev in which, according to a spokesman, he "gently but firmly" asserted Daniloff's innocence and demanded his release. Word was passed to the Soviets that they should resubmit their...
...sagacious and older Wyeth's point of view. With age comes wisdom but also occasionally paranoia. Perhaps 69-year-old Wyeth felt that if he never said a word about the paintings while he was still alive, they would be misunderstood. Perhaps our castigation of the artist for his mute revelation is too harsh and premature. The calm and gentleness of his hidden secrets excuses almost anything...
Typically, a lawyer will attempt to drop the client, as Rubin did. Sometimes the lawyer may warn the judge outright of the perjury. A third alternative is the one suggested to Rubin by the Florida appeals court: to stand mute while the defendant narrates his story unaided, a solution rejected by the A.B.A. but permitted in some states. For the lawyer who decides to part from a client, says Hofstra Law Professor Monroe Freedman, "the point of no return is when you are so close to trial that the judge is not going to grant a motion to withdraw." That...
Before men and women lived together in the houses, things were very different. The doors to rooms in North House bear mute testimony to the old way of life. On almost every door hangs a 6-in. hook, which, legend says, young Radcliffe students had to use as a door prop whenever they had a male visitor. After all, no young lady could have her door closed with a man in the room. Today, male and female North House students pry the hooks off their doors as mementos of a bygone...