Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tone of most of them was thoughtful, decent and concerned. They ranged from college undergraduates anticipating families of their own to a Midwestern farmer who is head of a line of ten living children, 42 grandchildren, 48 great grandchildren. Many told their hopes and plans for having more children. Many more discussed the contribution they expected their children to make some day to their country's future. Over all they expressed a vigorous satisfaction with a family life that, despite its difficulties, they "wouldn't exchange for anything...
...close the U.S. libraries in Belgrade. Italy hungers for Americana, despite the confusion it feels after reading Steinbeck, Hemingway, Dos Passes and Faulkner in the libraries, and then seeing Hollywood's idea of Americana on the screen. India's press has changed much of its hostile tone under State Department persuasion, and in Cairo a Russian press bulletin warned against the spread of the U.S. cultural offensive because "it proposes before anything else to discredit the U.S.S.R. in the Near and Middle-East...
India's Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who promoted the show and missed no cue to promote India as the natural leader of the East, pitched the tone. Said he: "The countries of Asia can no longer be used as pawns by others...
...away from His enemies. It has become as fashionable and as easy to laugh at the blindness of ethical relativism with C. S. Lewis, the English wit, as it used to be to laugh with H. L. Mencken at the blindness of the Bible belt. But has the tone of the laughter improved? Is there...
...still can't read music well. He played his first date in New Orleans' red-light district when he was 10. He says "If I couldn't find the notes in the proper place, I made 'em myself. If you want a soft mellow tone, you have to take it easy and pet it a little. But you take an awful chance, you may not get anything." He still uses his own unorthodox fingering. "I seem to have a gift," he says. "If I hear a bar or a couple of notes of a melody...