Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YEARS ago horror stories about the elderly flooded the national media. Pictures of retirees heading for the dog food section of the supermarket surfaced and a cry went out that the nation's social security system was going bankrupt. The cries are mute now, but the state of the nation's retirement income system remains a primary concern for the federal government, the increasing numbers of recipients of old age benefits, and the future contributors to the system...
...articulate, subtle and prolonged meditations on color in the history of Western art. It had no real parallel among American painters: one needs to go to Matisse or Bonnard to find anything like its expressive scope and patient single-mindedness. Then came the forays into an increasing darkness, the mute theatricality of his penultimate paintings, the wide blackish-plum surfaces that scarcely "breathe" at all, and the dull, fiddling solipsism of the last works...
...streets, the more intact remnant of the Cessna about six blocks away. The terrified PSA passengers trapped in the plummeting craft died instantly on impact with the earth. "It was a nonsurvival crash," one investigator said. Indeed, the carnage left in the wake of the fireballing metal fuselage gave mute testimony to that. Scraps of clothing hung from telephone poles. Parts of a briefcase were found here, fragments of computer printout papers there, a pair of shattered glasses elsewhere. At St. Augustine High School, Father Anthony J. Wasko feared that the falling plane would plow into his school...
...personal frustration to empathize with all people whose creative efforts society thwarts. Silences is more than a memoir or a narrow feminist polemic. Though the book did grow out of her own "special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly mute at having to let writing die over and over again in me," Olsen eloquently and passionately documents a spectrum of circumstances, most beyond the control of the writer, that corrupt or destroy his art. (Olsen criticizes the language's invidious bias towards the male...
...Britain has had quarrels with the other eight members over everything from butter to oil policy. But this time Britain's foot dragging threatened to block agreement on some of the most crucial problems to face the Community in recent years. Though an effort was being made to mute some of the quarrels for the present, diplomats predicted that a major clash across the English Channel could soon break into the open...