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Word: mutes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although he is back on his job as professor of economics at Yale, the loss of portfolio has rendered Retired Presidential Adviser Wallich anything but mute. He regularly writes editorials on economics for the Washington Post, has articles in three current highbrow magazines: Harper's, the American Scholar, and the Yale Review. In all three, Economist Wallich hopefully beams his message at a particular reader-President John F. Kennedy. Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Unkickable Habit | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

...show, dramatizing each week a different area of corruption (waterfront, highway construction). But the rest of the season's prodigious list of new crime shows are mainly 30-caliber bull. NBC's 87th Precinct began with a gimmick (the heroine of the initial episodes was the deaf-mute wife of a police detective) and will undoubtedly end on one-soon. Cain's Hundred (also NBC) has introduced Nicholas Cain (Mark Richman), onetime attorney for the mob, now bent on revenge for the mob murder of his fianc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Season | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

...around us, particularly among our elders, unfilled and frustrated human potentialties, personalities ground flat, material want, and ruined lives. . . . Small wonder that the first post-war generation could be called silent. In view of this history, 'mute' would have been better. We demand your patience; we learning how to talk." from an editorial in New University Thought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: N.U.T. | 10/14/1961 | See Source »

...valuable air time?" No one knew, and nobody thought of asking her why she had agreed to discuss The Clan in the first place. And so the program lurched toward the murky end. Gleason: "I'm loaded." Lemmon: "I know that." Mannes: "I feel like a deaf mute in a field of hog callers." Joe E. Lewis: "Out of the mouths of babes very often comes-oatmeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: To the Table Down at David's | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

...Mute Jake suffers little from cruelty, actually: boys chase him, loafers of no great intelligence use him as the butt for broad humorous gibes. But when his older brother runs out on the family and his widowed mother dies, the small community becomes their brother's keeper. They fail him, most of them, and after their effort to shuck him off onto the insane asylum collapses, the deeper tragedy follows. Author Williams is talking about the failure of human responsibility not through vindictiveness but through indifference. She does it with sureness, for she knows her villagers and she knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two True Sounds from Dixie | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

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