Word: tone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most difficult forms of literary performance. It is an old, old business. As old, let us say, as the impulse to destroy your fellow caveman, whom you could not lick on the physical merits, by withdrawing to a safe distance and mimicking his personal mannerisms and tone of voice, or exaggerating in a drawing on a cliff-face the length of his nose or the style of his whiskers...
...through the book runs the threnodic tone of something being wrong with the Church. "It is impious to think that heaven interposed in the affairs of humanity to produce that ridiculous mouse, the modern curate. No teacher in the history of the world ever occupied a lower place in the respect of men. . . . He figures with the starving children of Russia in appeals to the charitable as a object of pity. The hungry sheep look up and are not fed but the shepherd also looks up from his pit of poverty and neglect, as hungry as the sheep, hungry...
...number of distinguished men and Mr. Root, in supporting the recommendations, made two forcible addresses. He argued that unless the American theory of legal education were entirely unfounded, the new suggestions would not only improve the legal education of young lawyers, but would also give a higher moral tone...
...House of Usher" was played last year by this orchestra, when he was already well known by his charming "Stevensoniana". We were glad to have another opportunity of hearing the "Waltzes", which are still further proof of his skill at orchestration. They contain a wealth and variety of tone coloring, and clever rhythmic devices which relieve the monotony of the waltz rhythm. In form these waltzes suggest the "Valses Nobles et Sentimentales" of Ravel, where there are seven of contrasting mood and character, and the closing one a resume from fragments of the others. The most effective of Mr. Hill...
...heard Lieder singers and cantatrices, but only recently has the wealth of Russian vocal music been disclosed to us. Mme. Koshetz struggled bravely against a disagreeable attack of laryngitis, and she won out, for by the time she reached the two most important songs by Prokoifew and Moussorgsky, her tone was clear and of a beautiful resonant quality. How fascinating these Russians are with their charming simplicity and vivid imagination...