Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answer the question-why do I live? This provokes the answer: art is an attempt to justify human existence. Whether it's beautiful or ugly doesn't matter. Art still has to prove that human existence is worthwhile." Wotruba's stone men and women, in their mute but eloquent silence, seem to be stumbling toward the answer that...
...time for goodnights had come, Ljubinka reached into the pocket of her coat, pulled out a gun and fired on Cupic until the piece was empty. Momcilo Cupic died almost instantly. His forsaken love was carried, struggling and sobbing, to a mental ward, where she sat last week, mute...
Unspoken Word. In Cleveland, Deaf-Mute Mrs. Edna Hopton won a divorce from her deaf-mute husband after she convinced Common Pleas Judge B. D. Nicola that "nagging in the sign language can be just as effective as spoken words...
...brief blackout, she reappeared with her "father" under grey lights representing purgatory. The audience served as the jury, and another patient acted Susan's aunt and shrilled accusations at her. Soon Susan and her ghostly father went to hell where, under flickering red lights, the damned stood around mute, each in a shell of loneliness and unable to communicate with the others. Next stop was heaven: under a peaceful blue, "God" sat on his throne surrounded by angels, and Susan met a boy friend who had died young...
...McCarthy, his lame right arm still in a sling, lumbered into the hearing room, followed by his wife Jean. South Dakota's Karl Mundt had just sworn in the day's first witness, a onetime FBI undercover source named Herman Thomas. For twelve minutes, Chairman McCarthy sat mute. Then he ambled...