Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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UNTIL fairly recent times scholars paid little attention to the stage history of the great dramatists. To be sure, editors of dramatic texts utilized the information gleaned from old play-bills, quartos, broadsides, and the like in the reconstruction of "tone texts," but although the materials existed ready to hand, one might almost say that it was not until our own day that stage histories like that of Dr. Noyes began to appear. The pioneers in this branch of study in America have been Professor Hazelton Spencer of Johns Hopkins, Professor A. C. Sprague of Harvard and Professor Leslie Hotson...
...Supreme Court's unanimous decision outlawing the punitive State tax on gross advertising revenue by which the late Huey Long hoped to make all Louisiana newspapers with a weekly circulation above 20,000 toe his political line. In the office of the New Orleans Item-Tribune the tone of the jubilation was almost personal, for the Item-Tribune pridefull) credited a major share of the victory to the patience and acumen of its own lawyer, 38-year-old Eberhard P. Deutsch. Seldom is a newspaper's lawyer a hero in its editorial rooms. Even more seldom does...
Thus there is nothing acute in President Angell's analysis, and nothing original in his stand. It is definitely heartening, however, to see that Yale discerns and sympathizes with the humiliation of Harvard. Furthermore, the tone of the language of Yale's head promises stiff, virile opposition to the possible imposition of any sacramental fetishes on Connecticut...
...general the tone of the meeting was evenly divided between radical and conservative feeling. All elements submerged their own specific aims and claims in the wider interests by adopting the constitution as prepared, without serious debate...
Glazounov's Eighth Symphony completes the program. This work, composed in 1906, is the last of the symphonies which the seventy-year old Russian has written. Unlike many of his countrymen, Glazounov does not give his music a pervasive tone of pessimism. Instead, he has acquired a spirit of optimism--a product no doubt of the comparatively easy and successful path along which the course of his life has run. To him, the problem in music is that of perfection, not of experimentation. B. G. Wells' description of the man who "walks backwards into the future" might easily be applied...