Word: tone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lunch about the issue of housing. They mentioned that they had been mired in the issue for a long time--that there did not seem to be any real recourse. And then the younger said to the older, "What was there to discuss before the housing issue?", with a tone that sounded much like asking God what went on before Genesis. "We filled the time up somehow," the older reminisced...
...bitter affair with her and becomes the boss's lieutenant). The clash of the two triangles nearly destroys all three of them, and makes possible the emergence of the movie's real theme, the relation between sexuality and power. Gilda is extremely similar in its tone and its themes to another favorite of mine, Orson Welles's The Lady from Shanghai...
Roger Bernstein, another third-year student, said he thinks younger professors have made an effort to tone down the tension...
...incident is jarring because the tone elsewhere is so consistently light and playful. Amis does not want to have it both ways; he wants it every way, and The Alteration flits quirkily between sat ire, science fiction, boys' adventure and travelogue. The result is what Nineteen Eighty-Four might have been like if Lewis Carroll had written it: not a classic, certainly, but an oddity well worth an evening's attention...
...mock report card he drew up several years ago, he barely passed the Administration (marking it C) for its handling of relations with Europe, and gave it a D for its dealings with Japan. Brzezinski's most marked departure from Kissinger's approach may be in tone. While Kissinger with his cosmic sweep at times has seemed pessimistic about the U.S., Brzezinski insists he is optimistic. Says he: "I think we are on the upswing...