Word: mutedness
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Dysart mostly reveals his problems of a passionless life to the magistrate, and Sheila Smith's acting--also more muted and restrained than in the Broadway production--helps throw his expression of the need for individual passions into greater relief. She scolds him sharply for even thinking of not curing...
Madrid might be muted. The ambassadors of Switzerland, Britain and West Germany, who had originally been withdrawn, were all back on the job in Madrid. The French leftist daily Quotidien de Paris reflected the serious second thoughts about Europe's earlier outburst. In a front-page article, it noted...
Empty Promise. The renewed cycle of terrorism and repression has dashed whatever remained of the hopes generated by Prime Minister Carlo Arias Navarro's 1974 promise to begin inching Spain toward political liberalization. Although Arias is credited with serious intentions of introducing reforms that would have permitted the growth...
If one has to pick vintage years in this period, the early 1820s, "the era of good feelings," will serve as well as any. The quarrels with Europe were over or at least muted. Independence had survived its first trials. Yet even in that Arcadia there were dark corners. To...
Charles Oscar Finley, owner, president, general manager and remote-control field manager of the Oakland A's. was on a typical tear. "Get this crate rolling," he ordered. Chauffeur Howard Risner nosed the sleek black Cadillac into the moving traffic and headed toward Chicago's O'Hare Airport. "Shoot the...