Word: tone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salute one day last week heralded the arrival of a green leather-bound volume at the opening of Brazil's Congress. The book contained President Juscelino Kubitschek's 294-page state of the nation message. Its tone, as a House of Deputies secretary droned it out, in summary, was proud and hopeful...
...result is an infinitely complex music which bears some slight resemblance to modern jazz and Schoenberg's twelve-tone system. The wonder to Westerners is that the ancient music of India is also the nation's most popular music. It has caught on so rapidly during the last decade that Shankar and other top artists (who get up to $2,000 a performance) have no difficulty drawing crowds of 40,000 to open-air music festivals...
...another. Dean Coulton received the copy for the issue before it went to press. He claims the submission was voluntary, editors claim they were pressured into giving it to the Dean for his approval. Coulton, speaking as an individual, not a Dean, told Landscapes' staff that he found the tone of the magazine one of preoccupation with "sex, disease, and abnormality." He suggested that the material go to the Faculty-Student Committee on Publications, which exerts final control over all campus publications...
...wunnerful to express mild approval, or often merely to show that the M.C. has heard and noted a statement by the interviewee; he's so right; I've got news for yuh; that's for me." While quiz shows are "cultural"' in content, the tone set by the M.C. strikes a contrast. Money winnings become a bundle; an elderly lady contestant is told, "You're a doll," or the M.C. begs leave to "talk to the people"-an interesting usage, observes Fadiman, "with its suggestion that 'the people' are somehow a manipulable substance...
...concert given by the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in Sanders last Friday night was disappointing. The only part of the program that was musically acceptable was Frances Steiner's playing of the Saint-Saens Violoncello Concerto, Opus 55. Her tone was usually warm and clear, and the technically difficult passages were executed with a degree of ease. Unfortunately, soloist and orchestra did not always pay sufficient attention to each other...