Word: tone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announcement describes the course as "a discussion of writings--philosophic or realistic, ironic or satiric in tone--that portray and evaluate the social scene in terms of attitudes and behavior, motives and morality...
...major work yesterday was a new work by Stravinsky, written especially for the Lowell Bells. Stravinsky, having grown tired of the twelve-tone style of composition, was intrigued with the possibilities of a row of sixteen tones and an unpitched bong, and his piece exploits this unique combination fully. The next number, the finale of Haydn's "Toy" Symphony provided an effective contrast. In listening to yesterday's delicate performance, the acute and profound commentary of Leonard Bernstein came to mind: "This 'little' work is actually one of the greatest musical portrayals of the nobility of man, his struggle...
...Sleep sets the tone for most of the other stories by introducing Author Herlihy's obsessive interest in the "foetal" world of prehistory, when the "gray vapor-covered earth" was ruled by "giant serpents and tiny-headed monsters." Weeping in the Chinese Window describes the cruel seduction by a tiny-headed monster in human form of a spinster who has never suspected the existence of primeval, serpentine masculinity. A Summer for the Dead features a lusty gal who is rejected by a man dead from the waist down and settles for one who is only dead from the neck...
...lesser extent, they have penetrated the higher echelons of government and the army. At least one ranking official, Economics Minister Ibrahim Kubah, talks like a Communist (he calls Red China the "focus of intellectual and spiritual enlightenment in our contemporary world"). The Communists control propaganda, dictating the tone of all Baghdad newspapers. They also control the streets, as last week's events in Baghdad showed. Pictures of Khrushchev have now begun to appear in windows beside those of Kassem...
...witticisms of Wallace Stevens and the distempered howls of Allen Ginsberg's Beat Generation, 50-year-old Poet Roethke has restored simplicity to the tortured, packed lines of U.S. moderns. He has brought back melody to a poetry that was becoming as labored and dissonant as the twelve-tone scale...