Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Matters were not much clarified by Sadat, although he was hardly standing mute. Last week, behind a motorcycle escort, the Egyptian President zipped across Cairo in his Mercedes-Benz 600 to Cairo University's domed Nasser Hall; there he addressed 1,750 delegates to an Arab Socialist Union Congress assembled to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Nasser's revolution. In a remarkable wide-ranging speech that lasted four hours (see next page), Sadat alluded to the expulsion of the Russians only in meager and unrevealing phrases. Much of his address was taken up with angry denunciations of Israel...
...excellent generalizer but an undistinguished portraitist. He seldom made an individual's face. The earliest known Lehmbruck, a bust of himself done in 1898 at the age of 17, is an exception to this. But it is, as one might expect, a rudimentary effort, stiff and mute. Fifteen years later, when he made his Head of an Old Woman, the image succeeded less as a portrait than as a meditation on time: the plaster face is weathered like an old root, its forms blurred under the delicate accumulated fingermarks...
...Nixon has the presidential power and political freedom to zig and zag. In his press conference last week, for example, the President announced that the Paris peace talks will resume next week -during the Democratic Convention. Thus the prospect of negotiations in the midst of the campaign may mute the antiwar attacks of the Democrats, who would not want to invite charges of undermining a possible peace settlement (see following story...
...more ambitious silent comedies than Chaplin's-Buster Keaton's The General combined yocks with the verisimilitude of Mathew Brady photographs; Harold Lloyd's and Ben Turpin's movies could wring as many laughs from an audience. But no one ever touched Chaplin's mute grace; no one ever approached the lyricism of his Eternal Immigrant lost in a country that would never be his. No one ever implied a comic past that reached back through civilization to Pan himself...
Valenzuela's attachment to the traditions of the fifties does not mute his strong political views, however. "Un gobierno tan malo como este jemas ha existido!" he exclaims fervently...