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...necessary and incumbent labor force or as the passive victims of prevailing policy. Instead, they are engaged in exploring the varied and manifold historical responses of the people at the bottom to their own condition, the political acts and cultural expressions of the "losers" in history. Escaping the mute parochialism and indifference of many historians, they realize that causes which they portray and analyze that were lost in Europe and in the United States may yet be won in Latin America, Africa or Asia. The most valuable chapters in The Seduction of the Spirit stand as one of the first...
Port Said is a ghost town. The yellow and whitewashed buildings are mute. The Sheherazade nightclub, the new Metropole Hotel and the Bank of Alexandria are scarred by bomb blasts. We were escorted into this canal-side city by Egyptian officers. They kicked down the door of the former British officers' club and led us through a billiards room where the stale smell of dust and decay hung over the neatly racked cues and a picture of the late President Nasser. The rules of the game of snooker in fine curlicued print hung on the wall. The balcony opened...
...arguments have been weakened. But Sapir personally seems to have gained in prestige, partly because of his successful fund-raising campaign in the U.S. ($1 billion) and partly because the Israeli economy continued to function through the war without major dislocation. Nonetheless, he may well find it necessary to mute his dovish instincts within a post-election Cabinet that will probably be facing a bigger Likud-led hawkish opposition in the Knesset...
...anything to him?" an official asks a young boy whose face is framed in heavy bandages. The boy, burned when an uncle poured hot grease over him, shows mute incomprehension...
...failed, elderly intellectual named Humberto. He is the caretaker of a huge, decayed and sparsely tenanted religious retreat house near Santiago. Those few others who live there-a mother superior, a few female orphans and a handful of ancient housemaids-know Humberto only as "Mudito." The name means "Little Mute," and indeed no one knows that Humberto can speak...