Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...founding fathers knew what a President should look like, they kept it to themselves. A President, says the Constitution, need only be a native-born resident and old enough (35) to be dry behind the ears. The law is mute on the shape and size of those ears and other elements of physiognomy, stature and hirsuteness that go into the chimerical mix of looks...
...power and need to create, over and beyond reproduction, is native both in women and in men. Where the gifted among women [and men] have remained mute, or have never attained full capacity, it is because of circumstances, inner or outer, which oppose the needs of creation." Tillie Olsen
...afoot to "betray" Medellin. Brazil's bishops took the lead in attacking the document; a new, somewhat less conservative version was subsequently prepared. The Brazilians also rebuffed two top officials of the Vatican's Justice and Peace Commission who made a quiet trip to persuade them to mute political statements at CELAM...
...comparison, George W. Bush was nearly mute on what might have seemed an ideal issue for a Republican, commenting vaguely about the responsibilities of parents and movie theaters. It may be that his campaign decided that bashing Hollywood didn't work for Bob Dole in 1996. Or it could be that the entire subject is not particularly comfortable for a candidate who sat for 10 years on the board of Silver Screen Management Services Inc., a New York?based firm that financed more than two-dozen R-rated movies. "The Hitcher," one of its films for Home Box Office (which...
...year's shortest day comes and goes. While emotionally fragile individuals may suffer special aggravations as a result, the temperamental thrash that most people feel is often no deeper than their resistance to being nudged out of narrow everyday patterns. The pressure of the season is only the mute wish of a society that yearns, against all odds, for a sense of wholeness...