Word: tone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burke and Crouthamel, the two halfbacks, made the majority of carries, and it is unlikely that the Crimson will again face as devastating a pair of runners this season. The first two plays of the game set the tone for the entire first half, with Burke running for six yards through right guard and then Crouthamel going for five more in the same spot...
Like so many other stories about boys growing up, The Young Stranger could easily have slipped into a bog of sentimentality and muddy emotions. But the skill of the actors, of director John Frankenheimer, and particularly of writer Robert Dozier saves the tone of the picture every time. For example, when the mother explains to the boy that his father really does care for him, Dozier finds way to make such a statement fully convincing. "Your father," she says very quietly, "once told me that you are the only thing in the world he really loves...
...creates a light, slightly mad, slightly ethereal atmosphere which, if rather insubstantial in itself, sets up countless brilliant little touches--situations, moments, gestures, speeches. The play is not in itself as successful as The Lark, or as Thieve's Carnival or Toreadors, both of which it mildly resembles in tone. Yet the present production adds considerable creativity to the script, and makes the show as a whole very nearly live up to the high standards of interest expected of Anouilh...
...Germany but of the country as it was in the decade following the war-a country that managed to survive Nazi savagery and Allied destruction, being reborn not in hope but in selfish mediocrity; a society where guilty memories are screened behind lifeless living and where the intellectual tone is set by chattering pedants of the adaptable sort who are able to flourish equally under Naziism or democracy. The fact that today Germany in many ways presents a far more hopeful face to the world does not change the poignancy of Novelist Boll's haunting recollections...
Judson T. Shaplin '41, associate dean of the School of Education, set the tone of the coming Cambridge election last night, when he shouted angrily to the audience at a Meet the Candidates rally, "How much do you value education in the public schoolsof Cambridge...