Word: tone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...respect. Louis Harris finds that 61% of the public credit Nixon with "inspiring confidence personally in the White House." L.B.J.'s last reading was 33%. Nixon has not, as Communications Director Herb Klein claimed last week, "calmed the waters of America," but the President has set a new tone in much of the country, a vital ingredient if Nixon is ever to focus and release national energies...
Despite its dryness of tone, Baker's book is a massive and humane critical achievement. He firmly makes a necessary point: this sometimes foolish, vain and gallant man might have gone through life merely flailing at his personal terror-shooting it, gaffing it or punching it in the nose. Instead, he also tried to exorcise it with words. That made all the difference...
...remained undimmed until almost the final hour. A patient at Walter Reed Army Hospital since last May, shortly after his fourth heart attack, Eisenhower suffered three more attacks in June and August. Several times he was in critical condition, only to recover. Last week the bulletins took on a tone of finality. The old soldier's heart progressively weakened until, at week's end, it ceased beating. "His passing was peaceful," said...
Despite their relatively brief collaboration, the quartet displays a seasoned, settled style-almost as if it had been playing together for a decade. Its tone is unfailingly rich and clear; its mastery of the ensemble form is so complete that even when performing with as experienced a musician as Pianist Artur Rubinstein its relative youth as a quartet is not all apparent...
...same feminine peevish tone Morris proposes that Zachariah substitute a pen-pal correspondence with Ethel for his former carousing. Zachariah (James Spruill, a Boston University Fellow and director of the New African Company), only leers good-naturedly at the suggestion, Ethel: sixteen, white, and well-developed. Though wiser than Morris in knowing that dialogue does not replace sensual aspirations, in furrow-browed innocence Zachariah sees no reason why he should fear making it directly with his white...