Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have deteriorated, that it his lacked the verve and snap and inventiveness of yore. not only in his commercial products of popular airs, but in his too infrequent jazz records, his solos have been adversely affected by his full-dress symphony performances, for the cold, pure classical clarinet tone Mozart wanted sounds cold and pure when transferred to jazz, where tone can express so much...
Churchill tartly cabled back that he was surprised at Curtin's tone, promised to review all the facts before the House of Commons. Later Churchill hinted that a vital cablegram had been delayed. The Melbourne Sun was forced to comment that L'Affaire Casey had been handled by all concerned with "surprising feebleness...
...somewhat tedious statement of early Christian dogma, Father Smyth concludes that Christianity is in essence a collectivist faith, that it must concern itself with the evils of this world, and that the only Christian solution of those ills is therefore a collectivist one. This article is more Leftist in tone than even the famed Malvern Conference, and demonstrates that the Church both at home and abroad can be more than a defender of the status quo. "Clark Hamilton's" composition, "We Will Have Dictatorship," points down the same collectivist path but winds up at a wholly different destination, for society...
Bits of the picture are hilarious, deft touches that could come only from Lubitsch's direction. But they often slip over into the intensely dramatic and prevent the consistency of tone present in such Lubitsch successes as "Ninotchka." For instance, take this case: a Gestapo agent, speaking of Jack Benny's acting, says, "What he did to Shakespeare, we are now doing to Poland." The basic plot is a natural for Benny and Miss Lombard, who are cast as Josef and Maria Tura, the leading actor and actress of Poland. He is an actor who revels in Hamlet...
Down Mexico Way managed to be primer-like but not too cute. An offer to send the text of its songs in Spanish and English drew 1,700 letters last week. Students of Spanish could take heart from the fact that its Mexican tone was achieved by an Irish-born script writer (McDonagh), a Canadian-born director (Corday), and a cast whose ingenue (Gould) was born & bred in Manhattan...