Word: tone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S is a sassy valedictory valentine to oldtime burlesque. The tone of the film is predominantly affectionate, and excellent performances by Jason Robards, Norman Wisdom, Britt Ekland, Harry Andrews and Joseph Wiseman contribute to the revelry...
Restrained in tone, precise in language, the Nixon statement contained no mention of the law-and-order campaign slogan. "These troubles have been long building," Nixon said. In part, he blamed them on failures in education, racial prejudice and the explosive pressures of rapid social adjustments, adding: "I wish I could report that we had produced a magic formula that would end crime and sweep away despair overnight. We have...
...This is enabling legislation, designed to create and set in motion machinery that will revise Harvard's relations to the ROTC program. As enabling legislation, it is perhaps less dramatic in tone than measures intended to cut all ties with ROTC immediately. This results from the desire of the CEP to consider alternative ways in which ROTC can remain in the Harvard community, including operating as an extracurricular activity or as an activity that designates regular college (i.e., academic department) courses to count toward the military commission as well as the baccalaureate degree. This is not a call...
...NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S is a bright and sassy valedictory valentine to oldtime burlesque. The tone of the film is predominantly affectionate, and excellent performances by Jason Robards, Norman Wisdom, Britt Ekland, Harry Andrews and Joseph Wiseman contribute to the general revelry...
...politics in Northern Ireland has a quaintly archaic tone, it is probably because the issues have not changed much since 1690. In that year, the English armies of William of Orange trounced the Irish Catholic troops of James II on the banks of the Boyne River and established Protestant ascendancy over all Ireland, including the six counties that constitute Ulster. Ever since-and particularly after Southern Ireland went its Catholic way-Ulster's leaders have been preoccupied with safeguarding the Christian Reformation. William's picture is still painted on the red brick wall of many a Protestant home...