Word: tone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That specific tone is admirably captured in a luminous and hilarious revival of the seldom done Marriage at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. For the occasion the Guthrie imported Russian Director Anatoli Efros to stage the play, and his work is a marvel. Communicating through interpreters, he seems to have established an intuitive rapport with the cast. The actors get under the skin of an alien culture and, with seamless ensemble work, translate Russian characters and responses in supple body English...
Seldes wanted to obtain an effect of different "tempos" in her writing, to avoid the monotonous quality she feels many memoirs possess. The tone of The Bright Lights ranges from philosophical to comical to lyrical. In this sense, the book mirrors its author: as The Bright Lights shifts narrative moods in a matter of paragraphs, so Seldes shifts personal moods in a matter of minutes...
...dark, "the elves must have put a roof on Cashel Hill." Shouts of murderers and comedians sound across the Hudson and Liffey rivers. Episodes in Nighttown and the underworld consciously echo the rhythms of James Joyce and Saul Bellow, but Charyn manages to sustain his own peculiar tone, a unique amalgam of psychological insight and scatological farce. It is one of the most unlikely and compeling literary combinations since T.S. Eliot's Gerontion mixed garlic and sapphires...
...Meadowlands of New Jersey, the fans yawned their way through the afternoon as Rutgers buried Columbia, 69-0. From the opening kickoff, the tone of the game was evident, as Rutgers' Dave Dorn took that kick 94 yards for the game's first score...
...might even have been better for the demoralized Crimson if Howe had made the intercontinental attempt, since it would have added a tone of finality to the frustration-wrought contest...