Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three days of general debate 111 members made speeches, some of them many times. The tone had been quiet, generally. Observers noted that, if the 77th is a war Congress, it is unlike every such U. S. Congress heretofore. Nearly every speaker on both sides preened himself on his lack of emotion, took pride in his own hardheaded, coldly practical viewpoint. All the tears shed for Britain could have been collected in an eyedropper; all the hate for Hitler couldn't have been compressed into enough arsenic to furnish a murder mystery. The Congress tried...
...what harpsichordist Johnny Guarneri does to some of his own ideas (VICTOR)...Benny Goodman's latest twelve inch recording, Superman, is another elaborate Eddie Sauter orchestration, and features Cootie Williams pyrotechnics all the way through. There's also some tenor sax by Georgie Auld, who gets the same dirty tone out of his horn that Benny likes to use (COLUMBIA)... Metronome's 1941 All Star band has recorded One O'Clock Jump and Bugle Call Rag for VICTOR. Coupling can't help but be good, but unfortunately they have to squeeze in a chorus for everybody. Consequently, one man will...
...candid enough statement, it must be admitted! But what is there in the American spirit today that could conceivably be interpreted as a desire (or even a feeling of obligation) to wage a religious crusade? Absolutely nothing--as the most casual observer knows perfectly well. Nor is the tone of America imperialistic, except in certain tight little groups where it can always be found. Furthermore, contrary to the pretentious fraternalism concoted by President Roosevelt for his message to Congress in January, the spirit of internationalism in America (in any of its familiar forms) is virtually non-existent. These facts...
Quite a different tone had the voice of business issuing from the Committee on Manufacture of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. In a report over which Chairman Clifford S. Anderson of the Norton Manufacturing Co. (grinding wheels) of Worcester, Mass., and 19 colleagues had pondered for a week, the committee announced...
...Quixote has always been the black sheep among the Richard Strauss tone poems. It has consistently been denied the great popularity of the earlier works, even of later works like Ein Heldenleben. Probably the reason is its extreme digressiveness: it rambles along, absolutely unfettered by considerations of structure, and the resulting lack of logic makes irritating, and even bewildering listening for many. Yet in many ways it is Strauss's greatest work. It shows a variety and a breadth of spirit unequalled in anything else he wrote. The humor in Till Eulenspiegel, for example, is obvious stuff compared...