Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...love to arrange strange marriages, delighting in such mismatings as an old man with a young girl, an unattractive widow with a youth in his prime, a cripple with a great beauty, a cantor with a deaf woman, a mute with a braggart. Let me tell you about one such 'interesting' union I contrived in Kreshev, which is a town on the river San, that enabled me to be properly abusive...
Such views cry out for refutation in the novel. But after Hitler's Sturm und Drang, his captors and critics remain mute. In effect, Steiner allows A.H. the last word, and ends on a note of bleak ambiguity: the noisy arrival of the first helicopters from the waiting world beyond the jungle. Portage largely avoids both the satisfactions of the traditional novel and the horrifying details of Holocaust literature. Instead, Steiner has taken as his model the political imaginings of an Orwell or Koestler, and although he has not reached their challenging heights, he has produced a philosophic fantasy...
...Third World remains mute on Poland. The Catholic Church sidesteps the repression and detention with vague symbolic rhetoric. Europe dares not speak for fear of offending the Soviets. Napoleon was correct when he declared that morality belongs to the country with the largest artillery...
...economic consequences of immediate majority rule would be especially dire for South Africa, the most industrialized nation on the continent. Very few Blacks have had access to the education required of industry managers or government administrators. The poverty of now-independent colonies is mute testimony to this point: Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia, Zaire and Angola are among the poorest countries in the world, and many are debt-ridden or bankrupt. As soon as these states became independent, productivity plummeted and industry rumbled to a halt...
...Jack Reardon, who runs the arena, has already unchained the doors for her and then disappeared. She's alone in the cavernous arena to practice figure-skating routines, and it's nice to click on the Panasonic and step onto the ice, performing to the undivided attention of 2000 mute chairs while sound waves glide across the ice and reverberate off the wooden rafters high above...