Word: tone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even insinuated that the faculty might not always be blameless. The most alarming symptom was [the teachers'] fatalistic attitude toward pupil deficiencies and derelictions. The charge most frequently lodged against pupils for not studying, for instance, was 'they don't know how to study.' The tone of the accusation and of the teachers' elaboration on it was one of resignation to fate, of washing their hands of responsibility . . . Until teachers become imbued with the attitude that pupil deficiencies in minimum essentials are the unfinished business of every teacher, the situation in West Virginia will grow...
...final days of the conference, a few attempts were made to moderate its hysterically anti-Western tone. Sudan's Foreign Minister Mohammed Mahgoub (one of the few officials to attend the "nonofficial" gathering) successfully opposed an anti-discrimination resolution bracketing the U.S. with South Africa, arguing that the U.S. has legislated against racial discrimination while South Africa officially enforces it. Egyptian and Indian delegates between them succeeded in killing a resolution condemning "the inhuman atrocities of the U.S. occupation forces in South Korea...
Musical Telephone. A transistor-powered telephone signal that emits a staccato-like, musical tone instead of a ring has been developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories Inc. and is being tested on 300 telephone subscribers in Crystal Lake, Ill. The new signal is available in eight musical pitches...
...more dramatic approach would improve both the performance's pace and its credibility. There is little sense of dramatic response between one character and another. Eugene Pell as the Merchant is the major offender, with a tendency to over-draw his characterization with scarcely a change in pace or tone of voice. Cyrus Hamlin as the guide and William Schroeder as the coolie are both adequate, but a little dull. Mark Mirsky as the judge is more communicative, but a little out of touch with the serious spirit of the play...
...circles of outer darkness, "financial irregularity" is used for fraud. This indifference--to keep to the more general term--is usually supposed to result from a precocious and unerring insight into the realities of things, and a moral and intellectual nature of too high a "tone" to take any interest in the vulgar and short-sighted struggles of the external world... It is also true that, we have some acquaintance with that life of polished dissipation and fruitless travel which we are pleased to call "the world," our estimate of the real world, as we argue from a part...