Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salzburg Seminar in American Civilization has come a long way since it was first bruited about Cambridge last March, and it has fought that way through obstacles which would have beaten most planners into mute submission. Lack of food, unobtainable military permits, money troubles, and countless smaller difficulties plagued the seminar plan from the start; as they say themselves, those who carried the load sometimes still cannot believe they are here...
Last week the twelve jurors found arrogant Douglas Chandler guilty of treason. The minimum sentence is five years in prison and a $10,000 fine; the maximum penalty, death. Solemn and mute, his two daughters, Laurette, 21, and Patricia, 18, watched him led away to wait for the court to fix his punishment...
...when the spirits she produces mechanically for her seances' begin to appear unasked. The opera in Menotti's hands and those of the Ballet Society is far more than the usual Metropolitan parade of dummies with voices; Menotti probes far into the characters of the degenerate medium, her mute servant and kind daughter, and the pathetic customers who make the seance an unforgettable scene...
These silent little victims stare as if in mute reproach to our generation of "adults" whose puerile irresponsibility let this war come to pass. Weary, aged and disillusioned beyond their years, they plead the case for relief and rehabilitation far more eloquently than their elders who . . . have so grievously failed them...
...appears to Coach Bolles that, with few exceptions, the Eastern crews are of about equal calibre. The equality, at any rate, exists near the top, to which this season's slim light between first and second place sholls act as a mute witness. Even Cornell's slightly more than one length victory last Saturday is close for a two mile distance...