Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What are the younger faculty members doing? Do we pick the best men? Are there mute and glorious scholars who should be at Harvard?" Brinton said his committee will probably try to answer these questions...
...opened last week in Manhattan (off Broadway) for a two-week run. When the curtain rose on a bare stage and a black backdrop, it looked as if Mime Marceau, gesticulating but wordless, had about as much chance of success in hard-to-please New York as a mute at a hog-calling contest. But next morning the critics called him "superb," his work a "masterpiece...
...dignity, unlike their children. Author White is overfond of the eye-stopping metaphor ("She was brushed in sad gusts by the branches of the music"), but at his best, he makes long-suffering Stan at least as poignant as Markham's Man with the Hoe. Stan's mute wisdom is in knowing that endurance is all. Author White's literary unwisdom is in worrying this theme for so long that his novel itself becomes a kind of endurance test...
...such a high proportion of cowed and eunuchoid males, drilled with Prussian thoroughness to shun all household sins. Never, but never, do they drop cigar ashes in the icebox, prop their feet on a coffee table, leave an unwashed dish in the sink . . . They endure their married lives in mute docility, and die mercifully early in life from ulcers and high blood pressure...
...really too hot to fight; few blows landed with real conviction. Cops soon stopped the festivities with gentle words. Penalties: a $100 fine slapped on each manager by League President Warren Giles, who had seen the Donnybrook in mute rage. Final score (if it mattered): Redlegs 5, Cardinals...