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...Gerald remained silent upon war aims, except for stressing our responsibilities toward "the mute peoples of Europe and Asia" and remarking in passing that he expected less talk about "propertied class" after...
Second Son Don Jaime never took the title of Prince of the Asturias (Crown Prince of Spain). No hemophile, Don Jaime was born deaf, was for years mute as well, though he now croaks intelligible Spanish, English, French. When Don Alfonso married, Don Jaime stepped aside, leaving healthy Don Juan as heir apparent...
...Columbus, Ga. with a hopeless passion for good music, fine writing, kindly human relationships. Her family was not well off, her opportunities were limited, her observations bitter. At 20 she married a fellow Southerner and started work on her first novel, a long, cloudy story of a deaf-mute. Appearing last year under the publishers' makeshift title of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, it won great critical acclaim. With the money from her book, Carson McCullers moved to Manhattan in search of kindred spirits...
...this second Christmas of Hitler's war finds Niemoller and upwards of 200,000 other Christians (some estimates run as high as 800,000) behind the barbed wire of the frozen Nazi concentration camps. Here men bear mute witness that the Christ-whose birth the outside world celebrates unthinkingly at Christmas-can still inspire a living faith for which men and women even now endure im prisonment, torture and death as bravely as in centuries past...
...London ... He and Trollope talked all the time and both at the same time. . . ." But then, it suddenly seems scarcely important: "It was long ago, long ago-and not even an echo of that turbulence was left in this room. . . . Trollope is dead. . . . Joaquin Miller is white-headed and mute and quiet in his dear mountains...