Word: tone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life." Still, he was urged to hold out by the two leaders of the latest Humphrey-for-President movement, Erie County (Buffalo) Democratic Chief Joseph Crangle and Illinois Congressman Paul Simon. At 1:30 p.m., Humphrey showed them a withdrawal statement. Crangle and Simon asked him to tone it down, to keep the door open a crack. As the three men met, Humphrey got a phone call from unpredictable Jerry Brown. He wanted to join Humphrey in a ninth-inning drive to stop Carter. Humphrey turned him down. At 3 p.m., before TV cameras, Humphrey declared that since Carter...
...today Bok's statements take a different tone: affirmative action has fallen under Bok's attack on government regulation. In his annual report this year, for example, Bok criticized federal officials for imposing "rules [affirmative action, for instance] to secure important social objectives without considering less intrusive ways of achieving their goals. When the government, acted, however, strong pressures were already developing on many campuses to devote more attention to hiring women and minorities. There was also little evidence to show that minority faculty were victimized by systematic discrimination; careful studies suggest that these professors were already receiving larger salaries...
Once seduced into their weird new world, converts are surrounded always by warm, supportive Brothers and Sisters and are reassured by smiles, friendly pats and handholding (called "love bombing"). Premarital sex, however, is banned, as are drugs, and the moralistic tone of the centers generally attracts those looking for discipline and order. The disciples sleep only five or six hours a day, eat simply and are assigned tasks such as domestic work, proselytizing or selling. In order to peddle their wares they may claim to be helping drug addicts, orphans, anybody-since such lies are merely "heavenly deceit...
...third-generation proprietor, and 15 Murphy family members work for him. The Afro serves up rich portions of information on education, careers, consumerism and fashion, is keenly aware of black heritage subjects, carries a great deal of Third World news and has its own photographic morgue. Its generally gentlemanly tone contrasts with a helter-skelter makeup that suggests all the news that fits, it prints. Says Murphy: "An editorial on unjust hiring policies doesn't create the same excitement as marches and barking dogs in Birmingham, but we will continue to focus on important problems-housing, education, jobs, voting...
...humor is more rueful in a short piece called XRay, written for The New Yorker in 1930. By that time Lardner's health was failing. He was drinking heavily, though still writing lightly. At the end the author is being carted to a hospital, his Lardner tone still unmistakable: "In an ambulance they made you ride lying down, whereas you can take your choice in a taxi...