Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Need. Like the majority in Lota, Juan is a Communist. His union is Communist too. In the past it has staged some violent strikes, lost every time. Last week, the union's tone was strangely moderate. Its leaders seemed to take seriously the claims of the Chilean and British owners that costs were high,* and bound to remain so as long as machinery ordered in the U.S. failed to arrive...
...Book-of-the-Month Club advertises meritorious and meretricious books in the same loud tone of voice. To the club's 900,000 members, judgments like "powerful," "moving," "noble," "haunting" must by now have the same dull ring as "colossal" has for moviegoers. When the Mountain Fell, the club's co-choice for October, is promoted with all these words. But for the first time in many a month, they are not entirely irrelevant...
...Tone of Legend. Seven weeks later a wasted, ghostly figure crept down the mountainside to Aire. It was Antoine, who had incredibly survived because the rear wall of his cabin had been the cliff itself. Dazed and half-starved, he spends only one night at home, returns the next morning determined to find Seraphin, whose voice he had heard after the landslide. When the superstitious mountain men refuse to go with him, he crazily attacks the boulder-strewn waste with pick and shovel, is brought back to sanity only by the courage and understanding of his wife who has followed...
This is a book about Hollywood, which for an ordinary human being, or even for a pig, is a strange and terrifying place. The tone of disillusion and disgust very likely comes from Bemelmans' discovery that, aside from the glittering surface, Hollywood is nothing like prewar Paris, where he delighted in being gay rather than sarcastic, and sentimental rather than cynical. We see the giant Olympia Studio, where no man is happy, and the road to success is to keep one's month tightly shut and do no work. But Bemelmans makes no judgements; instead he tells the story...
...discounted merely as a maneuver to frighten the U.S. into giving China more aid. But official Washington preserved a stolid calm. One key official at the State Department dismissed the news as unimportant, conceding only that it had raised a few hackles here & there. Said he in a tone that would scarcely have been used by Britons at their hoitiest and toitiest in dealing with "natives": "Perhaps the Chinese have been a shade more independent recently, as if they wanted to show that China was not a rubber stamp...