Word: tenorizing
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Last year, for example, as you point out in contradiction to the basic tenor of your editorial, securing a $40,000 word processing center and opening Widener on Sundays were definite improvements in the quality of student life realized by the council...
Though there were occasional sharp exchanges,the tenor of the clash was relaxed, with thecandidates stripping to shirt sleeves because ofthe heat from television lights, and occasionallyjoking with each other during the time alloted forthem to question one another
...battle over Bork could be the culminating ideological showdown of the Reagan era. After nearly seven years in office, the President has altered the tenor of the nation's political debate, riding and guiding the pendulum swing from the liberal Zeitgeist of the 1960s to the conservative climate of the '80s. Yet for all the talk of a Reagan Revolution, for all the President's personal popularity and success in changing tax and spending policies, the social agenda of the New Right has remained largely unfulfilled. When he nominated Bork, Reagan said that the judge "shares my view...
...Moses, portrayed by Bass-Baritone Theo Adam, is outfitted in Old Testament garb), Ponnelle risked having the quarrelsome Jews appear like characters in one of Julius Streicher's Nazi racist fantasies, evoking the stereotype of avariciousness and the calumny of blood libel. Even the splendid performances of Adam, British Tenor Philip Langridge as a smooth Aron, and the brilliant chorus of the Vienna State Opera could not erase the disturbing, if unintentional, impression...
Others manage to find strength and serenity in their affliction. Gerald lo Presti, a second tenor with the Gay Men's Chorus, was diagnosed as having AIDS in 1985. When crippling lesions spread to his vocal cords, Lo Presti had the lesions burned off and kept singing. When he could no longer sing the tenor range, he relearned all his parts in bass three weeks before the season began. Still later, he insisted on a blood transfusion that would allow him to tour with the chorus. "He practically had to be held up," recalls Perry George, a member...