Word: tone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate, the Democratic battle for majority leader is of immense importance to the Carter program. The majority leader usually sets the tone and acts as spokesman for Senate Democrats. Leading in this race is Senate Whip Robert Byrd, 58, of West Virginia, a conservative turned moderate. A skillful technician who has parceled out many favors in his six years of running the day-to-day operations of the Senate, Byrd is thought to have 29 votes already lined up-three shy of a majority of the 62 Democrats in the upper chamber...
...Israel's leaders "with their perfect English" always seem to lag far behind. Concluded the editorial: "Would that we had such boors" as Sadat. Rabin indicated that he was ready to negotiate with Arab leaders, but otherwise the response from Israeli officials was skeptical and even derisive in tone. In the U.N. Assembly debate on Palestine, Israeli Ambassador Chaim Herzog spoke contemptuously of "those soothing sounds emanating from various capitals in the Middle East...
...transistor radios from kids on the train just so I could hear the score," blurted out Ronald L. of New York City as 16 men and one woman listened solemnly. "I used to bet on everything, even the turnstiles at a ball game," he confessed. Then, in a quivering tone, Harold B. told the group: "I degraded myself in every way. I robbed like a bastard." His voice dropped to a whisper. "I was nothing more than a piece of garbage...
...another book on Hitler? One reason may simply be Toland's dogged thoroughness: he trails each major Nazi to the bitter end, whether it be a cyanide capsule, the scaffold or a bunker in burning Berlin. There may even be some appeal in Toland's flat American tone, which spills over into quotes translated from the German ("Come on, Stauffenberg, the Chief is waiting"). But the principal appeal of the book must rest in an enduring American fascination with the country's last honest crusade and that monomaniacal figure against whom the crusade was waged. As Hitler...
...work as open-air music for Venice's Piazzi San Marco. The canzon is a work which really has a vocal-fugal style but is played instrumentally. From this standpoint the concert band evoked the antiphonal character of the piece effectively, with strong modulations and an acute sense of tone color...