Word: mutes
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...even asking the faculty or alumni, it tells us that we, the students, form too small a "constituency" for our opinion to be respected. And worse yet, it attempts to excuse itself on the grounds that what it does, it does out of the moral conviction that by being mute it is really helping the South African people...
...more subtle levels of the though process and, most important, direct experience of the very source of thought, consciousness itself, improve one's ability for effective action in the world. This seemed fully rational to me only when I began to think of examples such as the child's mute experiences with gravity improving his ability to move about in the world...
...obscure Eastern cults, Cuisinarts, bud vases, I.U.D.s and LeRoy Neiman prints, jumbled with the bones of producers and promoters. Archaeologists even found the calcified remains of a Lhasa Apso, pathetically clutching in its teeth the rawhide doggie pacifier it had tried to keep while vainly fleeing the cataclysm: mute testimony to the suddenness with which nature had rebuked (but for future museumgoers, preserved) the frail pretensions of human culture. How like us-or so the visitor to the resurrected city, preserved in a giant tank at Sea World, might reflect-the Malibuvians were! How familiar their appetites, how quotidian their...
...While she is haggling over the sale of a belt buckle, her favorite son Eilif (Kevin Conroy) is dragooned to the wars by a sly recruiting officer. Eilif dies. While she tries to shave the price for the release of another son (Jeffrey Hayenga), he is executed. Finally, her mute daughter Kattrin (Frances Conroy), raped as a child by a soldier, is shot down while Mother Courage is away on one of her bartering expeditions. In the end, only her spunk and the wagon have survived...
...space nor the capital to stock an adequate inventory of spare parts. Even big department stores, such as Macy's in New York City and Hudson's in Detroit, treat conked-out appliances like leprosy cases. As a result, many frustrated owners simply stash away the mute, inoperable machines like dirty clothes until they have enough to fill a shopping bag and take to a good repair shop-if they can find...