Word: tone
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Coolidge's "Cargo" has the true metaphysical tone of the 17th Century; "Apologia" (Mr. McLane) concludes the verse of the issue...
...classic in terseness and biting sarcasm is President Lowell's letter to Professor Franz Keibel of the University of Koenigsberg. The latter is answered in a tone which ought to be applied to many more Germans and to the German Government itself; "If you can prove to me that you protested against the burning of the Library at Louvain, and that you endeavored to secure protection and that you endeavored to secure protection and such treatment as you now request for the professors of the universities in the Belgian and French territory occupied by the Germans, then I will exert...
Certainly the rest of the letter adopts a very different tone. "Mobs will be mobs" it says in effect. "The writer does not apologize for the outbreak, but merely attempts to explain it cause. . . . only to be expected . . . . who can answer for . . . . No wonder . . . ." Moral censure is certainly an ugly thing, and one likes to see it deprecated; but such deprecation to be effective should be consistent. If Mr. Rosenblatt writes in this truly Christian spirit of the lynching, then the least he can say of the original assault is that criminals will be criminals; that, in view...
...Kensington's Yesterday," Miss Barbey has written a story, charming because of its air of starched lawns and embroidered silks, mahogany treads, and flower borders. The style echoes the tone quite beautifully--in all but the last sentence. The last sentence should be brocaded; instead it is backed with buckram...
...costs. This aspiration to retrieve the fallen Eli athletic laurels seems to have gone beyond the scope of the desired reconstruction, in the reduction of the much discussed expensive semi-professionalism of college athletics, particularly by the resumption of training tables and employment of seasonal coaches. The whole tone of the new rules is very strong and omnipotent...