Word: tone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fallows hardly speaks of speechwriting with great enthusiasm. "If you've written speeches," he says, "then you understand both what a different form they are from real writing and how you get used to venting all your own prejudices under your name. It feels a little frustrating to tone them down." Along with this suppression of "the luxury of being able to deliver your own opinions," the speechwriter can't devote any space to evidence or explanations, Fallows says. "You have to string together conclusions and assertions one after another and try to make little rhetorical patterns with them...
PRINCETON, N.J.--Color the day orange for the Harvard soccer team. Saturday's game against Princeton started out on an orange tone at picturesque tree-lined Poe Field; and it ended in a blur of Princeton's orange-colored balls finding their way into the Crimson net. The final tally: Orange 3, Crimson...
Guest's novel is not perfect by any means. It lacks the polish and tightness of more experienced writers. Her style is pedestrian--at times downright clumsy--perhaps a little too ordinary to be interesting. At points minor characters go flat, the tone varies confusingly, and it becomes hard to determine who's speaking...
...general tone of the meeting, especially as it related to loans, the IMF and the World Bank, left most Third World delegates in a peevish mood. India's Finance Minister C. Subramaniam reflected the view of most of the poor countries: he dismissed talk about reducing deficits and snuffing out inflation as "rich-country prescriptions" and demanded more power for developing states in IMF and World Bank decisions...
...keepers of the flame is that they have the last word. In the beginning Mary exiles Hemingway from her book-for 93 pages-while she details her childhood in Minnesota, her first two marriages and her decade and a half of journalistic exploits. In an "I-was-somebody-too" tone she relates how Lord Beaverbrook gave her a dry kiss on the forehead and tried to persuade her to accompany him on a trip up the Nile; how she talked her way into Neville Chamberlain's suite in Munich (the toilet paper was pink, the wallpaper was blue...