Word: tone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after Bossert and Harrison C. White, professor of Sociology, had made their joint pitch against the core, the tone of the debate changed...
...commentator, has often been good and sometimes distinguished. The networks have risen to large occasions - the McCarthy hearings, assassinations, moon shots. Perhaps a prefigurement can be seen in the radio broadcasts of the Senate's Panama Canal debates. The broadcast of the debates has raised the tone and self-awareness of the speakers. If the networks established a pool system and followed certain rules of discretion laid down by the House management, the system would surely produce something better than the somewhat stolid and formal self-portrait that O'Neill suggests...
...Proxmire's badgering tone cost him control of his own committee, whose members had received phone calls the day before from Vice President Walter Mondale and Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss urging Miller's confirmation. Illinois Democrat Adlai Stevenson III complained that the committee was asking Miller to prove his innocence rather than confronting him with evidence of guilt. Conservative Republican John Tower of Texas grumbled that "this type of inquiry is how we get our jollies in the Senate. It is easy harassment...
...gates (or something quite like them symbolically), the whole accompanied by warm, sensual feelings. Many, of course, catch a glimpse of God along the way, and they all make The End sound infinitely preferable to a case of the Russian flu. But the film is so simplemindedly earnest in tone and repetitive that it robs intrinsically fascinating material of all drama and mystery. Technically, the picture is so inept that it is impossible to tell when one of its subjects is alive and when he or she has crossed over; they all look like products of the undertaker...
...Faculty Council's rejection last week of an Educational Resources Group (ERG) proposal to allow student representation on the Core committees bears an arrogant and unconcerned tone that many students find all too typical. The council will vote again on ERG's proposal today, and we urge it to vote differently this time. Failing that it seems that only a strong expression of student disappointment over being left out of the Core process, and over the contents of the Core itself, will be the only student recourse. Unfortunately, given the general tone of apathy on campus today, such a development...