Word: mutedness
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Katherine Anne Porter is praising the short stories of Willa Gather, but the lines could be used without revision to describe some of her own small classics. Noon Wine (1937), a short novel, recounts a stark frontier tragedy of murder and remorse as muted and inevitable as anything by Thomas...
THE struggle between the races in America is indeed the struggle for the soul of a nation. Lately a lull seems to have descended on that struggle. Since Richard Nixon became President, he has deliberately muted the rhetoric of race. Until last week's pronouncement on school desegregation, he...
When Secretary of State William Rogers announced last week that the U.S. had denied Israel's request for 25 Phantom jets and 80 Skyhawks, the Middle East reacted with something less than stunned surprise. The Arabs were unhappy because, it was only an "interim" decision and because Rogers had...
(10 of 10) engulfed in mist, sit down to wait until the fog clears." There are, however, a few details that will not wait. The U.S.-Japan mutual security treaty comes up for reconsideration in June; Sato intends to keep it in effect, though the negotiations are likely to be...
Chevrolet was also affected. In October, ads for the Chevelle SS 396, featuring a blazing red model with black stripes and racing-style hood pins, warned that "In ten seconds your resistance will self-destruct." But by November, the ads showed a similar model colored a muted gold, and the...