Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...send a letter of protest to the President of Oberlin College, in Ohio, seat of the co-educational plan, in regard to his ban placed on the publication of "Progress," a journal sponsored by the Radical Club there. He objected to the magazine on the count that its general tone and methods were undesirable
...such a boisterously ironic tone, well calculated to soothe skeptics into pleased attention, does "Unofficial Observer" launch his Who's Who of the New Deal. Plain citizens will be impressed by his breezy air of impartiality and impatient candor. But this hard-boiled patter thinly cloaks an earnest enthusiasm for the Administration and most of its works. More effective as propaganda for the New Deal than would be the paean of a paid publicity man, The New Dealers well deserves the Order of the Blue Eagle, first class...
...entire tone of the article I condemn appeals to the emotions, not to the intellect, and that, TIME, is beneath...
...against "superficial" foreign criticism. "We have the finest things to be found anywhere, and the finest people in the world, plenty of them. . . . But the point is that with us such persons are wholly ineffectual; they have no influence; our society does not at all take its tone from them, directly or indirectly. ..." What riles him is such obtrusive phenomena as book-reviewers, who "have no idea whatever of the classification of books ... or of what makes them so. They also have no idea that a fourth-rate book may sometimes be exceedingly good, and well worth reading...
...other picture, Moulin Rouge, revolves around Constance Bennett, who nourishes a violent desire to play in musical comedy, against the wishes of husband Franchot Tone. She trades places with the French star imported for the production, and not only plays, but seduces her own husband into the bargain. There is less attention paid to the staging of the show than usual, with corresponding emphasis upon the boudoir. The usual bevy of maidens sparingly covered with broken glass is included...