Word: tenorizing
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...Harvard officials maintain that the vocal stance of councillors does not reflect the tenor of Harvard’s relationship with Cambridge as a whole...
Then Chen addresses the small crowd under the canopy, straining to find that memorable tone, his voice modulating through tenor registers as he praises the community for pulling together. He has done a hundred of these stump speeches, dedicating elementary schools, christening buildings, opening military bases. What he is saying is by now rote, the usual praise for Taiwan and the spirit of its people. The people seem to be listening, but they sit on their hands. Then it starts raining, and Chen's words are lost in the patter of drops on the canopy roof...
...proposal. Ten years later, when Clarence Thomas was nominated for the Supreme Court, Senator Jeffords voted against the appointment. In 1994, when the national Republican party began its most recent list to the right, Senator Jeffords took stock and decided that despite his disagreements with the tenor of the Gingrich revolution, he would stay on as a Republican. When the Senate voted against impeaching President Clinton, Jeffords? was among the majority vote. Again and again, the Vermont Senator voted against the party line: On abortion, on gay rights, on defense spending, on conservation issues - and especially on education...
...Then Chen addresses the small crowd under the canopy, straining to find that memorable tone?his voice modulating, his thick southern accent wandering through tenor registers as he praises the community for pulling together. He has done a hundred of these stump speeches?dedicating elementary schools, christening buildings, opening military bases. What he is saying is by now rote, the usual praise for Taiwan and the spirit of its people. But what he seems to be trying to get across is: come with me, come with me to this new Taiwan, this better place, we will have to find...
...singing stars; baritones were the almost exclusive rage for the next two decades. Specifically, his example taught Sinatra that the pulp poetry in a good lyric could be enriched by honoring it, and showed Presley how the low range for his ballads could be as sexy as the squalling tenor of his rockabilly...