Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hook." Molotov flatly rejected Marshall's demands that Russia stop taking reparations from current German production; he also refused any information on past Russian seizures in Germany. His tone was so aggressive that it seemed to leave no room for further talk. At a real conference, that would have been regretted. But in London last week, one U.S. delegation member sighed gratefully: "Molotov has taken us off the hook...
...more striking than the rumor's accuracy was the half apologetic, half-propagandist, wholly contradictory tone of Zhdanov's decree. Said he: "Currency reform in our country is radically different from currency reforms in capitalist countries. In the U.S.S.R. it is being carried out not at the expense of the people. . . . However, the reform demands certain sacrifices. The state is taking on itself the greater part of the sacrifice, but it is also necessary for the population to bear a part -all the more since it will be the last sacrifice...
...most outstanding feature of the magazine is its makeup-clean and bold. Its simplicity provides an attractive setting within which to display the contents. The tone of the articles is openly crusading. One side is right, the other wrong. Everything is made very simple. Roosevelt, Wallace, and the AYD are the heroes; anyone who is on the other side is a villain...
Playwright Van Druten, who wrote the movie adaptation, may have tried hard to keep his tongue in his cheek, but it's a safe bet that he also ground it between his molars. Ronald Reagan, none too shrewdly cast, plays, of necessity, as if he were trying to tone down an off-color joke for a child of eight. Eleanor Parker's imitation of Margaret Sullavan, the Broadway original, is painfully scrupulous, from the hair on out. But it is hard to believe that Sergeant Reagan could long endure the retarded maiden she portrays, much less find...
...When you reach home, you see your family's smiles of greeting, you see their lips move, but the rich experience of hearing the tone and rhythm of their familiar voices is lost. . . . The deaf man . . . misses the snatches of talk normally overheard as we ride the subway ... the tick of a clock . . . vague echoes of people moving in other rooms in the house . . . [the] incidental noises [which] maintain our feeling of being part of a living world. ... He feels as if the world were dead...