Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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However, I have discovered a silver lining -an infallible technique I'd like to pass along: I leave the volume turned down so that I can't hear a word-only the tone of the voices. Then if the voice is one filled with violence and hatred, passion and pain, fear and death, the show is going on. When the tone changes to one filled with lush romance, gentle coaxing and Charles Boyer's eyes-then it's the announcer. . . . But when the voice comes out cool and calm and matter-of-fact, with nothing...
...must read this column. . . . The explosive trumpet of Bunny Berigan was to be heard last night over the air from the Totem Pole, and it was the Bunny of five years ago at that. When sober, Berigan can apparently still play the most exciting improvisations, from the standpoint of tone, melodic ideas, or what you will, of any white man, and last night, on numbers like "Lover Come Back to Be" and "Night and Day," supported by what sounded like a nice jazz band, I heard the Berigan of "King Porter Stomp" and "Song of India" all over again. . . . After...
...want to dwell on the abusive and ironic tone, the satire and the insinuations used in that unfortunate article (TIME, Feb. 16), but I hasten to point out to you that it will have a disastrous effect here and in Egypt. It gives a false impression to the American people about a friendly nation who love and admire the United States and think of it as a land of the free where the small fellow has an equal chance, and it insults a friendly people and hurts their pride. As to the first part of the article...
Heart of a City is a teacup version of The Wookey, with more sugar in it than tea. At times it is touching, at other times amusing (there is plenty of good old British ragging to tone down its heroics); but lacking imagination and any real eye for character, Playwright Storm can write only with a kind of mild, admiring tremulousness. She never really gets round to writing a play. Heart of a City is almost entirely atmosphere, and all its scenes are pretty much alike. Hence each scene is less effective than the one before it, and by curtain...
Last week several important sponsors took a more adult tone in their messages. On CBS's evening news roundup, United Fruit went so far as to advise cabbage and spinach along with grapefruit and bananas for the balanced wartime diet. Curt and clearly patriotic was Gruen, which snapped: "Buy a Gruen watch, but buy a defense bond first...