Word: tone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...memory of this dreadful deed green. Then a short time ago a clever reporter came upon a man registering at a hotel as E. Robinson Casey. With sudden inspiration he cried. "Why, did you do it?" "I couldn't help it," Mr. Casey replied in a dull and automatic tone, "the umpire called 'em wrong...
...society endeavors to raise the intellectual tone of the whole undergraduate body by the example and activity of those men in each class who lead in scholastic attainments. The criterion of election is always the candidates scholarship, the ascertainment of which has come to be undertaken in accordance with a definitely formulated elective system...
Whatever the validity of Mr. Jentsch's arguments, however, undergraduate opinion will not tolerate such rudeness toward an older man and an honored guest of the University, as pervades the tone of his letter. The following quotation exhibits an attitude with which Harvard has little sympathy. "I proved that your other statements were just as misinforming as the one refuted here." If he is attempting to convince the University of the correctness of the German point of view, Mr. Jentsch would do better to employ more courteous methods...
Comparison of the Orchestra with that of Boston is inevitable. While the New York band has a much fresher and more limpid tone in the strings, the wind section, especially the brass is harsh and rough. Mr. van Hoogstraten is clear and incisive, a conductor of compelling dynamics and deep insight. His reading of the symphony was especially capable and muscianly, his interpretation of the third movement (allegro molto vivace) a triumph although it seems to us that he missed much of the flowing grace of the Allegro congrazia. The rather bombastic finale seems an anticlimax to the truly masterful...
Throughout the whole book the tone is the same--a tone that is heard but too seldom in these days. The admonition of Sidney to "look in they heart"; Carlyle's "labor"; Emerson's "instincts"; the desire of Arnold for "true and fresh ideas"; all these find a brave echo here. Even to so materialistic a theme as "Criticism in American-Periodicals", can such principles be applied-the principles of clear-sighted and unshaken adherence to faith and judgement. Nor are these principles held in the light of a sort of rule-of-thumb panacea, to be applied indiscriminately...