Word: mutter
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...importance a man carries at court. (The method is, at any rate, simpler than many signals of favor and disfavor given at Communist courts or even in democratic presidential mansions.) Last year Morocco's King Hassan dissolved Parliament and has been running the country singlehanded ever since. Critics mutter about his highhandedness as well as his high living, which includes ten palaces, plus fleets of airplanes and automobiles-including several curtained buses for ladies of the harem. But even his critics agree that he is worshiped by his people and that he works harder than any politician. Almost anywhere...
...handicaps: she is a woman, a timpanist and a Negro. When she appeared with the Symphony of the Air a few years ago, she says, "two guys walked out after I walked in." In the Detroit Symphony's band room, Harpist Elyze Yockey, 37, is forever hearing somebody mutter, "Why don't you stay home and take care of your babies?" (She has two.) One man expressed his disapproval of his curvaceous desk mate by twisting the tuning pegs of her cello until it sounded like a sick...
...balance, then, this is a very literate Lafpoon, and one with the same possibilities that the Ugly Duckling promised. But it is as unprovocative as it can be. If the good burghers of Bayeux ever see a copy, they may mutter a few "Sacre bleus," but who else could it provoke? Even the Lampoon's toothless progenitor, Punch, doesn't shy away from talking politics. Nor should the Lampoon, which never takes a stand, never catches you unawares, never makes you drop your jaw and the magazine at an outrageous line. In olden days, jesters felt obliged to insult monarchs...
Last week the 15 hardy souls along with 1,500,000 other Red Guards were trundled by truck through Peking's Tienanmen Square. There stood Chairman Mao himself, who recently so reticent, managed to mutter: "Long live the Chinese people!" Lin Piao, Chairman Mao's closest comrade-in-arms, paid special attention to the new Long Marchers. With swarms of Red Guard visitors still in the capital, he said he was in favor of such treks-"as long as they are conducted in a planned, organized and well-prepared...
...Part Two-which differs from Part One as King Lear differs from Romeo and Juliet-the action shifts from the physical to the metaphysical plane. The hero descends into the creative unconscious (Die Mutter) to find the feminine principle (Helena) that can save his soul from damnation by inspiring him to creative activity. After many agonizing struggles, Helena is won and Faust is saved-at the moment of death, he is creatively reclaiming land out of the sea, consciousness out of unconsciousness...