Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broadcasts' tone is usually oratorical and demagogic, vulgar, presumptuous, and therefore offensive to reasonably intelligent Italians...
...Travel advertising took a sudden, self-conscious spurt, but had a frustrated tone. Lake George, N.Y. beckoned soothingly: "Everything within easy walking distance . . . you don't need a car." Sea Island, Ga. boasted: "No rationing of cool sea breezes." The Denver Convention & Visitors' Bureau: ". . . Thousands of young Americans training in and near Denver say they're coming back, when their job is done. . . ." "If," said the Mexican Tourist Association, "you plan to visit your boy in camp in the Southwest. . . ." La Province de Québec described its humming war plants, its R.C.A.F. training fields, shrugged: "Your...
...strode into the big third floor room in Washington's Social Security Building for his first press conference, stood silent a moment while flash bulbs popped, then reached for a prepared manuscript and began to read. It was a statement positive in tone, full of "will do" and "won't do." But in the light of the House action, it sounded throughout, to the newsmen, like "I had intended to do" and "it had been my hope not to do. . . ." Read Hoyt...
Radio has in general tried to follow printed journalism's tradition of a free press. But there has been constant trouble. Commentators can and often do convey their own feelings toward news merely by tone of voice. Their daily entrance into 30,000,000 U.S. homes is very inti mate and puts a premium on voice rather than on brains or integrity. This accounts for the fact that much of the output of U.S. radio pundits is pontifical tripe...
...year and a half later NBC hired Kaltenborn away from CBS - which by that time had grown weary of his ex-cathedral tone, had acquired the dry, reassuring voice of Elmer Davis, and was plugging him hard...