Word: mutterings
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...lent to the events in Kyoto by the conspicuous presence in the crowds of a sinister-looking man who wrote furiously in a notebook as the Ibis passed. He identified himself as "head of Find-A-Bird operations in Japan" and as the bird flew off was heard to mutter, "Just as we anticipated--due West...
...book proposes even stiffer puzzles. The hero is Hippolyte; why does he move about and mutter to himself like a heavy sleeper coming to the surface? Is he in a dream? The answer seems to be: yes, but half the time Hippolyte is supposed to be awake. Then the question arises why he should sound the same when he is dreaming and when he is awake, moving like a somnambulist about the vaguely identifiable landscape of "the capital." Miss Sontag evidently has powerful convictions about dreams and offers many glum and portentous aphorisms on the subject, such as, "Dreams...
...Mutter in Minsk. Last week the Soviet press fumed that Evtushenko and other young writers should not be allowed to travel abroad until they "mature politically." When a West German girl was detained at the Soviet border on charges of smuggling caviar, Izvestia brought Evtushenko into it by charging that she had met Evtushenko in Germany and from him had learned all about "fashionable Moscow youth." In Minsk, where Dmitry Shostakovich's new 13th Symphony was performed for the first time outside Moscow, a critic castigated the composer for basing part of his score on Evtushenko's famed...
...these matches, Orville Freeman, 44, displays qualities useful to any U.S. Secretary of Agriculture-an all-out combativeness coupled with the ability to lose, mutter "Aw, shucks" and return to the fray. For Freeman's job is the most thankless in the U.S. Government. Freeman's predecessor, Republican Ezra Taft Benson, called it a "monster" and a "sordid mess." For 30 years, the Federal Government has been ineffectually wrestling with the ever bigger surpluses produced by U.S. farmers. In the process, the Agriculture Department has spent many billions of dollars, piled up huge stocks of surplus farm products...
...Paul, in I Corinthians, regards it as a special gift to Christians like prophecy-clearly has a place in the life of the modern church. In practicing glossolalia, the students do not fall into any mystical seizures or trance; instead, onlookers report, they seem fully in control as they mutter or chant sentences that sometimes sound like Hebrew, sometimes like unkempt Swedish. "I don't care what language it is," says one of the tongues-speaking students, "so long as it helps me live a Christian life...