Word: mutedness
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Unity and punctuality were to be the watchwords of this convention-in pointed contrast to the discordant Democrats. "The convention will be short, compact and precise," declared Republican National Committee Chairman Robert Dole. "We want a convention that will be watched-and not just by insomniacs." Everything is under control...
Holiday Inns has a products division that makes and markets a myriad of goods: furniture, bologna, kitchen equipment-everything that is needed to start a motel from scratch. The division even manufactures prefabricated bars. One popular item is a $25,000 Club Escadrille bar, complete with World War I flying...
Now, two years after Losing Battles, her long, lyrical, raucous hymn to rural life, she has published a short, muted novel about dying and surviving. Though it contains the elements that have established her reputation-tart humor, the noisy, intricate chorales of Southern social life-this is a more inward...
Even as the buildup proceeded apace, a relative lull descended on the fighting, and there was muted optimism that the Communists might not after all succeed in taking Hué. But that would probably only mean a strike elsewhere. The prospect remained for more bloodshed in a war in which...
But as Salinger's last story, Hapworth, noted, quoting Proust: "A cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap never turn out to be as high as we had hoped." The tide has gone out; the factories of the Salinger industry have experienced vast layoffs; the...