Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moan a tone in a microphone...
There are some fine flying scenes in Bombardier, and its generally muscular tone compares favorably with that of such weak, routine productions as Aerial Gunner. But Bombardier must compete with no less beautiful flying sequences in at least a half-dozen other U.S. films, and with the British minor masterpiece Target for Tonight (TIME, Nov. 3, 1941), which makes most flying films before and since seem superfluous. Bombardier has, further, to clear Anne Shirley every time it leaves the ground, and from time to time it crashes into insurmountable dialogue. Sample lulu: "Go ahead, Buck-make tomorrow's headlines...
...Detroit, where showrooms have been bare of new pianos for weeks, tone-tired instruments hardly worth $40 a year ago are now snatched from dealers...
This happy line, from Sergeant Eddie Hartman's 1918 Variety notice of the Elsie Janis A.E.F. camp show, epitomizes the tone of troop entertainment in World War I. What it lacked in polish it more than made up in razzmatazz. Forthright, gangling, cartwheeling Elsie Janis was the greatest favorite of them all. Her persistent yawp "Are we downhearted?" was rarely if ever answered incorrectly. Greatest band-greater even than Sousa's -was Jim Europe's Negro aggregation which, at a bands-of-all-nations celebration in Paris, stopped the show with St. Louis Blues...
Beethoven and Eliot. Readers familiar with the great "last quartets" of Beethoven will suspect that Eliot derived from them his title, much of his form, elements of his tone and content. They will almost certainly be right, for no other works in chamber music fit the parallel. Both Beethoven and Eliot are working with the most difficult and quintessential of all materials for art: the substance of mystical experience. Both, in the effort to translate it into art, have strained traditional forms and created new ones. Both use motif, refrain, counterpoint, contrasts both violent and subtle, the normal coinage...