Word: tone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Common Market nations. Fortnight ago during the French debate on the Common Market, Foreign Minister Christian Pineau flatly declared that a Free Trade Area which did not include agricultural products was unacceptable to France. The Danes and the Dutch felt the same way. In a less noble tone some continental economists insisted that Britain need not fear the Common Market plan so much since all signatories were equally sensitive to their own farm lobbies and had already built all sorts of agricultural protectionism into the machinery. Nonetheless the British hesitated. "If there should at any time be a conflict between...
...mixture of esteem and spite" Hitler had for the British gave him no clue as to what they would do. When he might have tried to lull them into defeatism, he chose instead to try to scare them with a policy of "fee-fi-fo-fum." This "minatory tone" was a bad mistake. "The menace of invasion was at once a tonic and a drug," writes Fleming. "It braced the islanders to exertions whose necessity seemed beyond question, and it expunged the memories of the disasters they had suffered." The British began to stir themselves...
Here the players were not so successful. There is a lot of electricity in this highly compressed work, and it never really flashed as it should. None of the musicians has what could be termed a big tone; and each of them tried to hide the fact by forcing his tone to the point of buzzing. This resulted in harshness rather than playing of tang and guts. The more restrained music of Haydn is obviously their proper dish...
Group 20 is fortunate to have for this role the services of Max Adrian, who scored this past season as Dr. Pangloss in the Hellman-Bernstein musical version of Candide. He romps through the role with infectious panache. He hits the right tone at his first entrance, appearing in a properly hideous green-and-red costume that clashes with his black-and-orange shoes. He belches, eats and picks his teeth with his fingers, talks with food in his mouth, and makes the most of a vulgar, cackling laugh...
...admissions, Ziolkowski has not got on as fast as some of his boosters would like. They persuaded him to seek a federal loan, but when his critics objected that public funds should not be used for so tenuous a venture, Ziolkowski balked. Last week he said with a loud tone of finality: "It was not the white man that asked me to come out here, it was the Indians. Even if the Government does lend me the money, I won't accept...