Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When asked how strongly the people of his native land were opposed to this customs union, Professor Vermeil said, "I read an article the other day in a very reliable French bulletin which discussed the situation with a calm tone saying that the union was inevitable. In the constitution of Weimar there is a provision for union. But Pan-Germanism is and remains a great danger, particularly since the elections of September 1930. If the customs agreement is successful, if the Italians and the Balkans come into it, there will be a danger of Germany getting dreams of European empire...
...situation in Germany is one which warrants extraordinary police measures. The recent murder of a Communist Deputy in Hamburg was an extreme manifestation of the violent tone which has become prevalent in political circles. Anti-Semitic and anti-Republican propaganda in the last few months and the threat of Communist anti-religious agitation at Easter finally provoked the Government to pass the emergency regulation...
...unisonal crescendoes which announced the murder announced also that Composer Berg had music worthy of the superb production. Wozzeck with his hands all blood staggering into a tavern where people were dancing to a tone-sick piano, Wozzeck going back for the knife, then wading into the water to wash him self, deeper, deeper until he drowned ? for these scenes and for an earlier one, in which the conscience-ridden Marie reads passages on adultery from the New Testa ment, Composer Berg has written music which critics unanimously pronounce the most powerful in any opera for years. Like...
...last two days the Vagabond has been looking into this carrillon question. He has discovered, among other things, that every good musical bell should have five distinct tones, all in harmony, and he has also found that the lower the tone of the bell, the more difficult to distinguish the different tones. Now the Vagabond makes no claim to being a carrilloneur, but he can hear a quantity of quite superfluous tones in the bass bell of Lowell House. And since there are five tones to each bell and there are nineteen bells, that would make ninety-five tones...
...Vale and Other Poems" is a slender volume. Threescore short poems and a half-dozen longer ones are all it contains, yet few collections of contemporary verse are so homogeneous. The verses, almost without exception, strike a note of gentle sadness, a tone which pervades the entire book. The title is significant. One feels that A.E. is saying farewell to all the "sweet-memoried" (to use his own phrase), things of earth. It is not an unpleasant theme, but rather one which lends an atmosphere of things long past to verses delicately and sensitively handled...