Word: tone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mistake," forecasting that so robust and ambitious a spokesman would tend to report not what the constituencies want but "what he personally thinks they ought to want." Either way, Hailsham would soon be heard from, doing his provocative utmost to arrest what he calls "a fall in the tone of public controversy...
...China's perennial membership bid. The committee rejected a Greek request to debate British "atrocities" in Cyprus, settling for a less controversial listing: "The Cyprus Question." Even Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, with his mechanical repetition of familiar Russian themes, surprised the U.S. delegation by his relatively moderate tone, as Soviet polemics...
...Murrow. As a performer, Murrow has expert technique. During the blitz, when he served as Britain's Boswell, his "This [pause] is London" carried the thrill of Britain's finest hour across the Atlantic. His timing can make silence more eloquent than words. Between his ominous tone and his spare, understated writing springs a tension suggesting that, as one listener put it, "he knows the worst but will try not to mention...
...nightly news show, Murrow conveys, by his choice of items and his showman's command of tone of voice, the news as Edward R. Murrow wants it to be understood. Example: on the State Department's obstacles to travel of U.S. newsmen to China. Murrow's reporting has dripped with disapproval. The Murrow aphorism ("A Word for Today") that closes the newscast is often chosen to make an editorial point. Something as simple as a See It Now shot of a subject's grimace or surreptitious scratch can carry as much condemnation as a Chicago Tribune...
Misplaced Trust. In Oswego, Kans., after he lost his keys and was robbed of $942, Labette County Sheriff J. E. Morrow installed new locks on his office doors, commented in an injured tone: "What bothers me most is that I have a thief in my jail...