Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famous silken tone ... his justly remunerated mastery of the musical marshmallow, were like so many cushions of damask and down to the musical ear.... It was admirable and fine and swell and O.K. and occasionally very, very beautiful. The guy can fiddle. . . . Four-starred superluxury hotels are a legitimate commerce. The fact remains, however, that there is about their machine-tooled finish and empty elegance something more than just a trifle vulgar...
...here is very successful. If it sometimes seems that he conceives of his characters as mere extensions of decorators' fashions, that is at least a novel way of conceiving of characters; and in this story it is most appropriate of the several devices which characterize Broadwater's original satiric tone...
Radio spellbinders and Gerald Mann may cut into O'Daniel's support, but the tone of his announcement showed they faced a mighty task: "I shall take along with me the Ten Commandments, the Golden Rule, an inbred and inerasable common touch with the common man and I hope your unceasing prayers." He spoke of his "old, old friend the President," urged more and bigger pensions and fewer strikes. He ended with a poem...
...author is James Burnham, assistant professor of philosophy at New York University, onetime co-editor of The New International, theoretical magazine of U.S. Trotskyists. He writes deliberately unemotional English with primer simplicity. The tone of his book is amoral, nonpartisan, scientific. The theory he expounds makes The Managerial Revolution as morbidly fascinating as a text book vivisection, possibly the most sensational book of political theory since The Revolution of Nihilism...
THEY WENT ON TOGETHER-Robert Nathan-Knopf ($2). Through an internationalized and thereby rather vague countryside, a widow, her son, her daughter and an orphan girl flee before an invading army. Robert Nathan's sour-sweet poetic tone, his exquisite sense of timing. are as usual; as usual, too, there is the highly specialized sentimentality which makes some of Nathan's readers dubious, others devoted...