Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vatican is invariably realistic, and the news was as plain to its statesmen as to any others last week. A sign of the times: the persistent suggestion that series of recently inaugurated Vatican broadcasts to Russia were pro-peace and pro-Church, but not anti-Soviet in their tone and total effect. A known fact: neither the Soviet Government nor the Russian Orthodox Church has voiced any public objection to the broadcasts...
TIME, April 12, speaks with typical candidness in mildly stating that "... both the time and the tone [of his statements] were ill chosen." Instead of pleading with the U.S., Great Britain and the Soviet Union to re-establish a Poland, Sikorski goes ahead and formulates plans for a miniature cordon sanitaire composed of small eastern countries to block off Russia, and even entertains hopes of acquiring Czecho-Slovakian territory...
Together-or Alone. Near both ends of the front, the Russians struck last week, and they were massed to strike elsewhere along its length. But the tone of Stalin's order, Moscow dispatches and the nature of last week's battles indicated that these were precautionary blows with a double intent: to jar and weaken the Germans before they could attack in force and to preserve Russian positions for the great assault to be launched later. If the second front did not develop as soon and as mightily as Stalin led his people to expect -well, they...
...Tone Deafness. The trouble is that Joseph Freeman is by no stretch of the imagination a good novelist. He is not even, in the sense that a novel requires, a good writer. With rare exceptions he is incapable even of suggesting that his characters are human. Even when, through pure earnestness, he manages to, his dialogue throws the matter in doubt. Few young women lie in bed and say to their husbands, "You can't call Spain a handful of fanatical idealists. A whole people is fighting at bay for its freedom and its life. And millions the world...
...Haydn, and three choral selections sung by the Cocilia Society and Apollo Clubs of Boston. These included Brahms' "Ein Schicksalslied" (A, Song of Destiny). Wolf's "Der Fuerreiter" (The Fire Riders) and the Borodin Polovetzian Dances from "Prince Igor." The flawlessness of their singing, their round, full warm tone all made for a perfect appearance with Dr. Koussevitsky. As an astute listener by my side sagely summed it up. "If they only knew how to bow in unison, they'd be machines...