Word: tone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mulder and Mortensen's Among the Mormons is an excellent example of this new objectivity. Although both the editors are Mormon in background, they have written a book whose tone is remarkably detached...
...agree that a need for an Old Testament course exists. Possibly a revival of English 35 is the solution. We do not seek to refute the literary significance of the Bible; no intelligent person would do this. However, in answer to the hostile tone of your editorial, we submit that a course on Scottish Border Ballads should not suffer a literary death at the hands of the Old Testament. Michael E. Hager '60 Philip E. Burnham...
...sadhus and supplies across the river. Fifty holy men from all over the country are spending a month there studying political philosophy, social service and hygiene, as well as the principles of Hinduism. Yoga exercises are also on the curriculum-not as a means to spiritual perfection but to tone up sagging sadhu physiques (students are reminded that Prime Minister Nehru stands on his head half an hour each morning to get plenty of blood into his brain...
Something comparably cynical in tone, and in spots even similar in treatment, went into Mark Twain's The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg. But Düurrenmatt's tale of the woman who corrupted Gullen is more eerily sinister. In Madame Zachanassian, with her entourage-pet panther, youthful eighth husband, blinded perjurers. American gangsters-are the all-too-obvious symbols of a ruthless, degenerate world. Moreover, it was Claire herself who carefully reduced Gullen to poverty as a prelude to tempting it; and her revenge seems directed almost as much on the town that witnessed her shame...
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 1929, Franchot Tone...