Word: tone
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tone of near despair, Yugoslavia's hard-voiced Joza Brilej told his colleagues: "We are faced with a situation . . . which is literally deteriorating by the minute." Then he persuaded the necessary minimum of seven Security Council members to vote for an emergency session of the 76-nation General Assembly, where the veto does not apply...
...discussion of Communist evil was not so easily confined to Stalin alone, for how different was the new crowd? In the satellites, the first timid flutterings of public criticism were masked as indictments of Stalin. But in Poland, in particular, the criticism took on a decided anti-Russian tone-it was, after all, Soviet insistence on farm collectivization, on heavy industry, on unfavorable trade terms, on oppression of religion, that caused Poland's basic discontent...
...next two centuries. The ennobling gestures and grand manner were picked up by Rubens when he visited Rome, became a feeder line for the rhetoric and exuberance of the baroque artists. The Carracci's love of the local color of Bologna's narrow streets set the tone for realism; their caricatures created a style that Hogarth later cashed in on. Their reordering of the classical tradition was carried on by Poussin and the neoclassicism of Ingres; their concern for formal harmonies is still alive in cubism and 20th century modern architecture...
Kitchen Do-It-All. Cincinnati's Nu-Tone is distributing an all-in-one kitchen gadget that operates a food-mixer, 6-speed blender, juicer and knife-sharpener off a one-fifth horsepower motor built into the countertop. Price...
...Amor Brujo, the best known section of which is the Ritual Dance of Fire. Based on Spanish folk spirit, Falla's music is exotic, feverish, and sometimes haunting. Soloist Malama Providakes sang with an idiomatic flavor reminiscent of the great contralto Conchita Supervia, with a dark, full-blooded tone. There were several lovely Oboe solos from Cynthia Deery, while the Orchestra as a whole played with both fire and precision...