Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...characters in Saville. But straddling two worlds is not so easy. Between the dark drudgery of the coal pits and the cold, clean life of the middle classes, there can be little dialogue. Colin Saville, bred from the mines to escape their pull, stands between the two worlds mute and placeless; all that remains for him is to rage wordlessly at the circumstances which have set him free...
...will be a firm favorite for the 1 1/16-mile Preakness in Baltimore later this month, though his competition will stiffen there. He may have serious trouble in New York's Belmont Stakes; the 1 ½-mile distance could prove too much for him. While his performance may mute Triple Crown talk, Seattle Slew was still the best at Churchill Downs on Kentucky Derby Day, which makes him this year's colt with a shot at U.S. racing's most coveted sweep...
However, Jaynes notes that idols produced in later periods consistently portray mute gods, a fact that conveniently fits into his theory of mind evolution. As the bicameral mind broke down and humans gained consciousness, he argues, they heard the voices in their mind with less frequency. Between the second and first millenium B.C., man eventually lost his "contact with the gods" and gained contact with himself. But a few bicameral individuals remained, people later depicted in the Bible and other books as having conversed with...
...reaching Washington about the Assad-Brezhnev talks was upbeat: the Soviets seemed eager to resume a leadership role at comprehensive peace talks in Geneva-a role that Henry Kissinger had largely ruled out for them in 1973 when he launched his step-by-step negotiations. While taking care to mute their criticisms of U.S. policy, the Soviets quickly settled their dispute with Assad over Syria's intervention in Lebanon, which had badly bruised Soviet-Syrian relations and seemed to seriously threaten the peace talks...
...mirrors and spent a month improvising, trying to squeeze characters out of the Sitwell poetry, while a photographer snapped glamourous pictures of the cast which are projected on the huge screens during the performance. But, unlike Chorus Line, the actors in Facade have an insurmountable obstacle--they must remain mute. The audio portion of the second act is provided by a replay of a commercial recording of the Facade poem...