Word: tone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...irksome job in chin-out style, standing memorably against all half-threats and pleadings from Capitol Hill and elsewhere to get favored constituents home ahead of their time. One day, when a U.S. Senator brought in a friend to ask a favor, Holloway said in the lawyer's tone that Congressmen understood and admired: "I look to you, Senator, to help me maintain my probity." Holloway added afterward: "No Congressman ever failed to react to such a plea...
...George Russell. Their efforts are now presented by Columbia on an album entitled Modern Jazz Concert. The selections range from Russell's blues-favored All About Rosie, "on a motif taken from an Alabama Negro children's song game," to Babbitt's lurching, jaggedly profiled twelve-tone piece...
...invention, efficiency and utility. There is no reason why we cannot eventually do so in the genius for art and literature." With such hearty optimism, a steel baron named Joseph Green Butler Jr. founded an art institute in Youngstown, Ohio 39 years ago. To set the strictly American tone of the place, he planted a befeathered bronze Indian in front of the $500,000 colonnaded building designed by the Manhattan firm of McKim, Mead & White. With Youngstown University near by, the two blocks surrounding the museum soon developed into the cultural strip of the U.S.'s third biggest steel...
...four demonstrated considerable instrumental versatility. Mr. Brown, a virtuoso of long standing on the modern flute, also played several kinds of recorder. Mr. Fuller, a concert organist, here showed his skill on a rich-toned harpsichord built in 1955 by the local firm of Hubbard and Dowd. Miss Davidoff played both the 'cello and its quite different predecessor, the viola da gamba. Mr. Senturia, a first-rate oboist, also played on several sizes of recorder; and, in three pieces, he provided the chief novelty of the evening by performing on a krummhorn--a long obsolete, J-shaped woodwind with...
...topics of "France's Ambiguities" and "India's Dilemma" set the tone for a critical evaluation of the two nations...