Word: tone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paddy Chayefsky's strengths and weaknesses were displayed very simply in an unscheduled part of Tuesday evening's performance. During an emotional scene, the aging hero of the play is talking sadly of the young girl he loves; he faces away from the stage and, in a disillusioned tone of voice, says, "I thought she liked me--you know what I mean" A woman in the tenth row Tuesday evening replied in perfect rhythm, exactly as loudly as the hero's line, in exactly the same living room tone, in exactly the same New York middle class voice, "Yeah...
...adapted from a play about the Black-and-Tan Wars, The Rising of the Moon, whose title was given to the trilogy. Lady Gregory's romance has a curiously mixed tone; she alternates bleakness and comedy, much as O'Casey and Behan were to do later...
When Congress sheathed the Battle-of-the-Budget economy knives arid went home, the Administration's budget woe's were far from over-in fact, they had scarcely begun. At his press conference last week, Dwight Eisenhower spoke of budget problems in the harried tone of a head of household who finds himself, soon after payday, with $365 in overdue bills and $165 in the family checking account. Said Ike, when asked what cuttable spots he might find in next year's budget: "If you could tell me that, I would have one of my hardest problems...
...office Drapeau lent the city a new tone. By revamping the city's tax-assessment system, resourcefully tackling traffic congestion, establishing an arts council, tireless Jean Drapeau has convinced Montrealers that the mayor can be more than a circus ringmaster. And although glasses still clink in nightclubs until dawn, big-scale vice has been run out of business-with no evident harm to Montreal's lusty tourist trade or Drapeau's popularity. Says he: "Here in Montreal people used to think that prostitution was necessary to keep down the crime of rape. We found out that...
During the first night, the sputnik's familiar beep-beep must have been heard by radio or TV, by a great part of the world's population tone music-minded Swedish radio listener firmly asserted that the beep is in A-flat). U.S. experts could not tell at first whether the signal, which alternates between 20 and 40 megacycles, is a mere series of beeps, or whether it carries coded information from instruments in the satellite...