Word: tone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SOLDIER BAYONETS WHITE MAN. (On the other hand, some Northern editors, among them those of the Chicago Tribune, felt the need to tone down their reporting by substituting Negro and Negro-lover for "nigger" and "nigger-lover," as bandied about by the Little Rock...
...combustion was located, and all that could be found to explain the monotonous tone was a short circuit. Those who hoped that at least the Yard might be composed primarily of red brick buildings were again disappointed...
...their favorites. Morandi, who specializes in painting bottles, was a disarmingly quiet candidate, and his countrymen are inclined to be as modest about their moderns as they are proud of their old masters. More important: no still-life painter now working has a subtler talent for arrangement, texture and tone. Morandi's still lifes carry forward the great traditions of Cézanne...
...Berlin he was exposed to such famed symphonists as Bruckner and Brahms (whom he described as "an unsavory-looking fellow, untidily dressed"), and he went home to Finland imbued with Germanic musical vision, but with a style of his own. His early music-En Saga, Finlandia and other tone poems-is filled with striding themes, echoes of folk tunes, broadly brooding melodies that reminded listeners of the good Finnish earth and established Sibelius as the composer of unfettered nature. With his occasional Nordic rages, he sounded like Brahms gone berserk, but he was also capable of a strongly appealing lyricism...
...gave him a 2,000-marks-a-year pension (about $400) so that he could devote all his time to music. He settled down with his wife in a white clapboard house at Lake Tuusula, where they raised five daughters. By the early 1920s, he had turned out 13 tone poems, seven symphonies, countless songs and choral works. He attempted an opera with no success ("I like opera very much, but opera does not like me"). His imagination seemed to flag. He published his last works in 1929, retired to Lake Tuusula as one of the venerated elder statesmen...