Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strauss: Don Quixote (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting, with Cellist Emanuel Feuermann; Victor; 10 sides; $5.50). In this tone-poem the Don is a cello, and the adventures are complete down to the last bleat (muted brass) of the sheep he fancies are an army. The Philadelphians and the soloist do a top-notch...
There is an easy-going variety in the selection of these poems, as indeed there is throughout the issue, and although this lightness occasionally becomes almost sloppy, the reader cannot help but like the young and candid tone of Trend. University literature has long needed such a publication, and Trend's rapidly growing public can only hope that this new sprout among magazines may be spared as the colleges prepare for the all-out war effort...
This change of tone suggested that perhaps Franklin Roosevelt had really touched the Axis' quick with his increasing and increasingly pointed measures to strengthen the Axis' great foe. It suggested even more strongly that the Axis had decided to take advantage of existing isolationist sentiment in the U. S. to divide and confuse the biggest "pluto-democracy," in order to slow up aid to Britain at a vital moment...
This unrest, it seemed clear from the tone of the press, was displayed chiefly by the well-to-do and the fairly well-to-do, those elements which have always been, at best, lukewarm supporters of Fascism. They are the elements which have been most loyal to King Vittorio Emanuele,who at the time of the Ethiopian crisis was supposed to have said: "If Italy wins, I will be Emperor of Ethiopia but if Italy loses, I will be King of Italy." He may have been thinking along the same lines last week. There were rumors that Crown Prince Umberto...
...traditional and obligatory sentiment, drowned in cliche, they nevertheless have an innocence in which, as in a wavy mirror, genuine emotions are somehow reflected. Eugene Field's Little Boy Blue and My Mother's Faith are next door to chromos, but they have an intact nostalgic tone with a true power to move. Stephen Foster's Old Folks at Home, even without the music and even thanks in part to the minstrel-show spelling, has gentle, real beauty (but only one line is about Mother). Yet that newspaper level of verse is half brother to folk poetry...