Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tried to rise above jazz with "Creole Rhapsody" and "Reminiscing in Tempo," but these were unsatisfactory. In the past ten years, however, Duke has made tremendous advances, and shows no sign of stopping. The main feature of the concert is an ambitious, three-part "Tone Parallel" called "Black, Brown, and Beige," which lasts forty-five minutes...
...inventor on his own. In his old age he holed up in hotel rooms, became an urban hermit, taped his doors and windows and tried to keep the room at a 90° temperature, had his vegetables boiled two hours, wiggled his toes several hundred times every night to "tone up." He also announced that he had discovered a death ray capable of killing a million men, had been in touch with Mars. Once he figured he would live to be 135 but changed his mind when Prohibition died, boosted the figure...
...painting a picture, not doing a sum. . . . Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. . . . There rises a mystic spiritual tone that gives meaning to the whole...
Last week a tone of desperate urgency crept into official pleas for more industrial and residential conversion from oil to coal for heating. James C. Richdale, chairman of the New England Council Liquid Fuel Committee, said: "We've got to quit talking about 75% [of normal fuel oil needs] we've got to tell the truth." The truth was that consumers may not get 50% of their needs...
Starting with Rolland Thompson's new cover, the most appropriate the Advocate has featured within undergraduate memory, the tone of the issue is one of lightness in a time of trouble. In the past this column has criticized the Advocate for a lack of material on the topic of immediacy, war. But now that the struggle has become so integral a part of our psychology attempts to mold it to the literary form seem strained, and what formerly might have been mere frivolity is at present a refreshing excursion...