Word: tone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...antiquarianism of this style is characterized by self-conscious alternation of techniques, little rhythmic interest, and no intensity of construction. It fails to explore the subtler sound properties and combinations of the instruments, resulting in tedious, rhetorical pointillism. In this case the tedium nearly became punishment since the clarinet tone was coarse enough to make a serpent seem mellifluous. As with all the works, it was impossible to determine without a score if genuine serial procedures were employed...
Helping Nonsupporiers. This tone of quiet confidence has been a constant in Nixon's makeup lately. His Gallup and Harris readings indicate that he is more popular now than last November, despite the war, despite campus turmoil, despite spurting prices. Even Rex Tugwell, a charter member of the New Deal, conjectured last week that if the election were held today, Nixon would get 10,000,000 more votes than he did in the fall...
...Fists. Toynbee's Olympian tone almost makes palatable a set of contemporary prejudices that has become familiar enough from other writings. Among them: the U.S. is "trying to build up a colonial empire of the traditional kind"; Madison Avenue is an abomination; Israel and the U.S. are the only two powers left in the world that believe...
...threat and the tone in which it was given alienated more students than it scared. The Chapel disturbances were taken up by an even larger number than before that evening. Thus, on the next day President Quincy retaliated by dismissing two students from the College--Trask of the Sophomores and Barnwell of the Freshmen...
...cruising the dormant volcanic cones of Iceland on ponies, never lost their awareness of the active political volcanoes of Europe, which had first erupted in Spain. The last line in the book, "Still I drink your health before/The gun-butt raps upon the door," crystallizes in a phrase the tone of the period. Although no gun-butt ever knocked on the doors of Auden or MacNeice, the two poets were better prophets than most politicians. They sang of Armageddon...