Word: voicelessness
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...council's impartial report, dictated as it was by a close vote, nevertheless leaves the undergraduate voiceless in a question of grave concern to the value of their educations. The faculty now holds the right and duty of making the eventual decisions, but the airing by students of their needs and desires is imperative. "Three-term" versus "Summer Session" must be debated and decisions formulated. An academic year which neglects the student outlook is foredoomed to failure...
...told. Novelist Koestler came closest to doing it. His Darkness at Noon is laid in a Communist prison. In one scene an imprisoned Communist taps through his cell wall to ask why his neighbor, a Tsarist officer, has first refused, then sent him cigarets. The nameless, faceless, voiceless Tsarist, the type of the repudiated man, taps back his reason to the totalitarian who once thought he was the hope of the world: "Decency-something your kind will never understand...
...artificiality "the contrived symbol the sly image the trick of metaphor" of the artist who reduces "passion to a poet's syllable." It ends by culogizing the blunt emotions of love and hate--"the hate that shows us naked . . . the love that cleaves us open-eyed, unmasked, unversed, alive. Voiceless poets released from artifice, whose statement sings in this most sensual peace." One hates to accuse Mr. Abrahams of hypocrisy; but when he lauds the poet "released from artifice," the accusation of poor humor, seems at least fully justified...
...report of pollers that the great voiceless middle class had found the New Deal distasteful was confirmed by results: in New England, where if anywhere in the U. S. the middle class is in a majority, Republicans swept every State. In New Jersey the conscience of the middle class as much as the anger of Labor helped to re-elect Republican Senator Barbour over a Democrat backed by hard-boiled Boss Hague of Jersey City...
Walter Winchell is an editorially free man so long as he keeps his signed column to Broadway trivia. Let him pick up from his liberal friends a political notion at odds with the prevailing Hearst policy, and Walter Winchell might become as voiceless as a $35-a-week Hearst reporter. Rare, however, is such smothering as Winchell got last week...