Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is needed is more uniformity. The University should proclaim a week of Universal Futility and end the muddlings of the snowbound. By resolving student's doubts about exams, the University could enable him to turn to a really constructive occupation--the mute and blissful contemplation of blankness. Unbothered by other cares, the student could gaze wistfully at the falling flakes, developing his soul and a death wish. Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle and other notables have expounded the virtues of silence. Is the University for liberal education? Is the University really for mysticism? We have a right to know...
Last year the Upper Colorado project was finally approved by the U.S. Senate -but its chances for House passage this year seemed doubtful. To mute the cries of the conservationists, the bill's managers agreed to drop the Echo Park dam from the House measure. Last week, while the House debated the bill, President Eisenhower made a strong plea for the bill, "an opportunity at last to treat the whole great, mighty Colorado River as a single entity, to treat it on a basin basis instead of merely local and individual. I hope we can have positive action...
...vigil of silent protest, ignoring rotten vegetables hurled by young hoodlums. As leather-lunged Prime Minister Johannes Strydom convened Parliament in joint session in the final act of his long campaign to write white supremacy into the law of his tragically divided land, the silent ladies, lined up in mute and mourning protest, seemed to be the only opponents he could not shout down...
Robert H. Secrist, as the boy, apparently understands his role quite well. At times, he manages to project pained convulsions of a character who is really mute despite a surface glibness. But at other times, Secrist seems only affected, and the kid becomes too cute for words. Elaine Gordon, on the other hand, gives a performance as the elderly woman that is too restrained. Both the actors and Earle Edgerton, who directed the first play, tired hard, but they just did not have the material with which to work...
...majority that he needs to expunge from the constitution the hateful clause that for 45 years has guaranteed voting rights to 50,000 mixed-blood citizens. In Pretoria a handful of black-sashed members of the Women's Defense of the Constitution League took up their stations of mute protest outside the old brownstone Raad-saal where Premier Strydom staged his show. Inside, opposition United Party Leader J.G.N. Strauss denounced the proceedings as "immoral and unconstitutional," then walked out with all his followers. Thereupon the Nationalists, inflated their countrywide majority to 77 of the Senate's 89 members...