Word: tone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been a pleasure to watch the art of Sarah Jane Smith grow over the years. She has always been a fine musician, and her soprano voice has grown in size and flexibility, and lost most of its rather breathy tone-quality that was noticeable two years ago. Her considerable talents were admirably displayed at a diffuse program last night at Adams House...
...awakening at 4 or 4:30 a.m. to jot down on a scratch pad the ideas that were flickering through his mind. When he first arrived in Augusta the wind was chilly, the skies were grey, and his golf score-usually a good thermometer of his physical and mental tone -was infuriatingly high. He suddenly realized that he was very tired, and planned a careful schedule to replenish his strength. By last week the clouds had cleared, the temperature rose into the 70s and the golf score descended toward...
...with some--though not all--of the other major roles, the difficulties of the play reassert themselves. Bryan Falk's Claudius appears unnecessarily stiff. Certainly the King should be regal, but that need not restrict the actor who portrays him to the single tone level and rate of delivery. Somewhat the same is true of Robert Jordan, in the part of Laertes. He tends to speak too fast to let his lines be readily understood. Lisa Rosenfarb, the Queen, happily avoids these mistakes. She speaks poetry perhaps better than anybody else in the cast. But in the other aspects...
...will certainly be forced to do when it has its hundred millions, or so, in hand, it should give graduate students a chance to return from the lonely, fluorescent garrets of the mirthless stone and steel around Harkness Common. Grad students probably would do wonders for the intellectual tone of the Houses...
...Preface) for our knowledge in how to dial. Step 1. "Look in the directory for the number [you have your choice of several]. If the information is not in the directory, dial 'Information'," (which seems logical enough). Step.2. "Lift the handset." (Yes.) Step 3. "Listen for the dial tone before dialing. This steady humming sound tells you that the dial equipment is ready for your call." (Boy! This is one hum we want to hear talk!) Step 4. "Go to heck." (This is surely a misprint, else, first steps are indeed misleading!) Then, there can be no mistake, it says...