Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friendly Tone. This vignette of how Britain's Prime Minister first heard of the historic event was related last week by the New York Herald Tribune's Bert Andrews, who got it from friends of U.S. Ambassador to Russia Harriman. The anecdote was a pertinent comment on U.S. and British newscasting styles.* Its counterpart could scarcely have happened in the U.S.-especially with George Fredric Putnam† at the microphone...
Putnam's mikeside manner is silvery, melodious, supersmooth. He describes it as "a fast-moving style. The voice is authoritative and has an underlying tone of friendliness, a tone of optimism but not optimistic...
...argument, of course, is politics. Did the movie tone down Hemingway's anti-fascist propaganda or didn't it? Quite obviously it did, but it also toned down the sex and the sweazing as all good Hayes office men will attest...
Maier talks for 19½ minutes. He literally shouts into the microphone at a machine-gun pace. Radio engineers have tried all sorts of tricks to modulate the tone. Once or twice they persuaded him to slow down, but it took the punch out of what he said, people wrote in to ask if he was sick and fan mail dropped off 1,000 letters a day. Now Dr. Maier just shouts and lets the engineers worry about...
...sonic effect, he adds, is "due to a fluttering action produced by currents of air acting ... in a manner similar to the action of wind on a flag. . . . The snore tone is constant and depends on the length, density and flexibility of the moving parts.... Each soft palate and uvula must have its own individual 'flutter ratio...