Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington threw no light at all on the seizure. Said the White House: "Dissatisfaction with the management." Said the Navy, in a controlled tone: "The corporation holds contracts for combat-type aircraft, the orderly and regular delivery of which is essential to the war effort. The existing private control. . . has not proved adequate...
...gratifying to me, after all these years of protest against an important foreign policy, to see our country finally on the right path," Brinnin stated. "Now that the meusce has been recognized by all poets are changing their tone in an effort to indicate new roads to be followed, and it is possible that a new golden age of poetry is in sight...
...ever seen. Most notable items were seven top-notch paintings which had been smuggled out of Europe via South America and the Far East, and had never before been seen in the U.S. Painted with almost microscopic care, their colors as mellow and clear as the tone of an old violin, these pictures resembled the work of modern "primitive" artists (TIME, Feb. 9) only in the prim simplicity and occasional unconscious humor of their subject matter...
...FRANCHOT TONE...
...with Irving Stone's Lust For Life (TIME, Oct. 28, 1935), nor is it likely to be. Both are bio-novels about painters. But about living, Life-Lover Pieter Paul Rubens was measurably less hot under the ruff than Life-Luster Vincent van Gogh, and so is the tone of his story. Comfortably pneumatic as a Rubens model (678 pages), it provides an intricate semiprivate history of its period (1577-1640), a smooth survey course in Renaissance art, and a career which refreshingly breaks most of the rules set down about The Great Artist...