Word: tone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sudden, violent switch of emotional tone, the ironic play on the tension between gaiety and sorrow, are typical of O'Casey, and their effect is heightened by Marc Blitzstein's music and Anges de Mille's choreography. Tommy Rall does the informer's dance with what looks like incredible virtuosity. The incident is milked a little too heavily, but it works...
...With a tone that rarely creeps into Eisenhower messages to Congress, the President last week attacked that costly, archaic contraption, the federal farm-price-support program. Said Ike in his farm message to Congress: ¶ It "has not worked." Most of the money goes to larger producers who need no help. "It does little to help the farmers in greatest difficulty." ¶ It breeds ever bigger surpluses, because high support prices attract capital to supported crops, and soaring farm technology keeps defeating crop-control measures. ¶ It is "excessively expensive." Farm-stabilization costs are running to $5.4 billion this year...
...experienced observers had such clear eyes. Glowed the Chicago Tribune's Dubois, who could not overcome his Castro partisanship and his relief at the fall of the tyrant, Batista: "I have just had the first exclusive post-victory interview with Fidel Castro. His words rang with a tone of unmistakable sincerity, and were pronounced with the idealism that produced his outstanding leadership...
...Serious Humorist." A mild-mannered intellectual who prudently wears a sweater beneath his suit coat, Jules Feiffer (rhymes with knifer) got well on Sick, Sick, Sick. This was not only the title of his book but also the wry tone of his work on such topics as frustrated love in Greenwich Village, the H-bomb tests, and psychosomatic illness. Many of Feiffer's best cartoons are not funny at all, instead sting with bitterness and poignancy, e.g., the numbing isolation of a small boy whose braying mother prefers his brother. "I'm against the misuse of power...
...Insisting that its famed herd of playwrights has not deserted TV, CBS resuscitates Reginald (Twelve Angry Men) Rose, after two years' absence from TV, in a script about a poker game that gets out of hand. Among the inside straight shooters: Barry Sullivan, Franchot Tone, Gary Merrill...