Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time, dulling the sun and stinging the eyes of the population. It is no longer the great open-shop town-labor unions, which cracked its defenses during the war, have consolidated their gains in the years since. It has a new leavening of industrial workers. But its tone, spirit and huge aspirations are unimpaired...
...their prose function. These poems were conceived with commas, as 'comma poems,' in which the commas are an integral and essential part of the medium: regulating the poem's verbal density and time movement: enabling each word to attain a fuller tone value, and the line movement to become more measured. The method may be compared to Seurat's* architectonic and measured pointillism-where the points of colour are themselves the medium of expression, and therefore functional and valid, as medium of art and as medium of personality. Only the uninitiate would complain that Seurat should...
Hadn't Whittaker Chambers once said that his disclosure of the Communist conspiracy was like an act of war, like shooting an enemy? "You were comparing yourself to a soldier in combat?" asked Defense Attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker, in a mocking tone...
...London. He had just finished a business errand for Britain's crack opera company; Glyndebourne's U.S. debut at Princeton, N.J. had been set for autumn 1950, and Bing was well satisfied. Then his phone rang. His faintly accented "Hello" was answered by the mellow tenor tone of the Metropolitan Opera's Edward Johnson. Could Mr. Bing attend a performance as his guest? Rudi Bing said he would be delighted. Last week, operalovers the world over learned that Rudi had seen and heard more than Mozart's Marriage of Figaro at the Met. He had also...
...advisers of the clubs, sang two of his compositions and one by Gordon Binkerd, a teaching fellow in the Music Department. During the year the clubs also provided a complete performance of Bach's Musical Offering under the direction of David G. Hughes '47 and a lecture on twelve tone music by Martin Boykan...