Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Barr Jr. led trapped museum staffers from the fifth floor to an adjacent brownstone roof. Other museum staff members led 500 visitors to the museum's rooftop restaurant or down the fire stairs. The fire's human toll: 30 firemen and visitors injured, one workman dead. Mute evidence of how bad the result might have been were the smudged, clawing finger marks left on a wall by Electrician Ruben Geller, 55, before he collapsed and died face down in 6 inches of water on the second floor...
...louder-voiced members of his cast, his blocking was superb throughout. While most undergraduate directors can be said to have done well if they have kept their players off each other's toes, Randall continually enhances the meaning of what is said through his manipulations of the mute actors. Furthermore, he managed to keep his cast from wandering at random when they have nothing better to do, and this gives his production a real beauty never seen on this side of the Charles...
Studio One in Hollywood: As a chronic stutterer who masqueraded as a deaf mute to avoid speaking, Fledgling Actor James MacArthur, 20, turned The Tongues of Angels into one of the best hours of Studio One since the rating-rickety show deserted Manhattan for Hollywood last January. The adopted son of Actress Helen Hayes and the late Play-Mright Charles (The Front Page) MacArthur, young MacArthur caught the withdrawn dignity and explosive rage of a troubled teen-ager who was befriended and helped by a farm girl (Margaret O'Brien). His acting persevered over a plot that did wonders...
...villa at the tenth milestone from Londinium, when L. Salisburi-us was sole Consul, in the year following the death of A. Tennisonianus Laureatus, whom the deified Victoria raised to patrician rank. It is handed down that the infant [wore] a beastlike scowl, which already gave assurance of ... a mute and cynical habit of mind...
...this spoof of Roman historians and their stuffy translators, Robert Graves makes two major misstatements about himself. He is not cynical, being far too intelligent and benign for that, and he is certainly not mute, being one of the most relentlessly prolific authors now at work. The book jacket of his latest collection of miscellaneous pieces says, "There is only one Robert Graves," but this is patently untrue. There are many-the poet, novelist, critic, scholar, mythologist, essayist, general literary pundit and japester. All of them in this thoroughly entertaining volume are in top form...