Word: mutedness
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The greener the comedian, the more he breaks up at his own material. As he ripens, his laughter becomes muted, his smiles iron out. But outside of rigor mortis, he can never approach the rigidity of the Great Stone Face.
Steeped in 19th century tradition, the story could not but end sadly, with the girl dead, the boy suddenly grown older and wiser. Even the wild poet becomes a domesticated civil servant. Turgenev published First Love in 1860, when peasant restiveness was a background rumble. It is to Schell'...
Though the sudden death of Gamal Abdel Nasser dramatically diverted world attention from the President's journey, Nixon's message was far from muted. While with Pope Paul at the Vatican, he observed incongruously that he was about to visit the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean-"the mightiest...
For much of the week the Northeastern seaboard flickered close to a massive power failure. The halls of office buildings, their lights dimmed to conserve electricity, were restfully muted, without their usual operating-room fluorescence. That was the best to be said for it. As power companies imposed "dimouts"-cutting...
ON THE STATUS of the suburban housewife, Slater is brilliant. When the society demands-and Dr. Spock declares-that the mother become the primary child-rearing instrument, her sexuality must be muted. The American housewife, Slater writes, has become thoroughly desexualized. In most societies, a woman does not become full...