Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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China's Critics. As usual Chungking, not the U.S. or Yenan, was criticized for the Stilwell incident. Typical of the tone long taken by leftists and echoed by liberals was a dispatch cleared by Washington military censors and written by New York Timesman Brooks Atkinson, just back from Chungking...
Humor and characterization are excellent in "The Late George Apley," but that is about all. The plot lacks substance and sentimental appeal and has none of the warmth that might have rescued it. The effect is always superficial; never once does the tone of the play suggest a smooth or natural flow. Epigrams and quotable witticisms follow in rapid succession, and if the play's continual references to Boston life delight the audiences here, that delight can be expected to diminish to the chuckle stains, on Broadway. Chuckles do not make hits...
...about time that the Republican Party thoughtfully considered your front-page caption. Why don't they change the tone and tenor of their Presidential campaign and give us something constructive for once? Those of us who loyally support Mr. Roosevelt and those of you who are unalterably opposed to him recognize that there have been mistakes made and-whether you admit it or not, Mr. Dewey does-tremendous advances have been made in our social planning and economic development. We know how old Mr. Roosevelt is, we know who his advisers are, we are fully conscious of everything...
...tone of hurt dignity, the Argentines offered to appear before the assembled Hemisphere, allow themselves to be judged. They deplored the present disunity, with their Government recognized only by Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay and Ecuador. They claimed to have fulfilled their obligations to Pan American cooperation...
Closer in tone to Our Town than to Life with Father, Mama is warm, humorous, sentimental, lightly nostalgic, more than slightly idealized...