Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today, the buildings still stand, but are used by only a small segment of the student body, mute testimony to the unique spirit of aesthetic gallantry that flourished in the South 20 years after the close of the Civil...
...boorish, the women loud, overdressed nitwits. When Jett Rink, the fabulous oil millionaire, gave a party, Leslie saw "Stetsons worn with black dinner coats . . . women in Mainbocher evening gowns escorted by men in shirt sleeves and boots." In the huge Reata house the library was bookless, the music room "mute...
...friends were wrong. Author Halsey was not (as she herself well knew) a professional writer. She was simply a talented amateur who had stumbled on pay dirt. While the lucky lucre trickled from her purse, her typewriter stood shrouded and mute. Melted soon were the impeccable makeup, the eye shadow and mascara of "gracious living." Today Author Halsey is happily remarried and the mother of a four-year-old daughter. She is, by her own description, a middle-class mamma who "wears cotton shirts and blue jeans to everything but weddings, christenings and funerals." She turns a deaf...
...wave of terror that swept through the ranks of the enlightened as MacArthur's plane approached these shores-it was Hitler entering the Chancellery all over again: nothing could save us now! And then the dark days of the dictatorship of Senator McCarthy, when printing presses stood mute, when freedom of expression went underground in the universities, and radio-TV stations and the lights of Broadway and Hollywood were extinguished; and when roving mobs of Legionnaires cast into the overflowing dungeons any government employee or plain citizen heard expressing "an unpopular opinion." So our most reliable watchmen -from Justice...
...boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r"; "The paths of glory lead but to the grave"; "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen"; "Some mute inglorious Milton"; "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife"; "The noiseless tenor of their...