Word: mutedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bill Clinton hadn't believed Dole was resigning until he heard it himself from Dole by phone. The official White House response was muted, gracious; Clinton advisers treated it as a bittersweet retirement party for a distinguished elder statesman. Behind the scenes, however, they cast it as an act of...
Imagine the scenario at the start of game two: Penn had just beaten Harvard by seven runs. In shutting out Harvard two days earlier, Columbia had muted an offense that had not been silent in 45 games. And in the first inning of that second game, Penn scored a pair...
And yet in his last years, from 1865 or so until his death, Corot produced an exquisite series of small figure paintings, mostly of young women sitting before the easel in the brown clutter of his studio. Some remind you of Chardin, others are prophecies of Whistler. Interrupted Reading, circa...
Despite the current wave of midterm exams, Irish-Americans at Harvard are preparing, albeit in a muted way, for the festivities associated with tomorrow's St. Patrick's Day.
Despite the muted reaction of Harvard students to St. Patrick's Day, the holiday is considered a bigger event for Irish-Americans than for natives of Ireland itself, said Tomas O'Cathasaigh, Shattuck Professor of Irish Literatures.