Word: tone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be a lot more upset about your somewhat gratuitous reference to the Delta Democrat-Times as a "second-rate" newspaper if I thought it was written by someone who had actually read the paper. But it fits in nicely with the generally half-witted tone of your issue on the South...
...basis." And, in a demagogic overstatement, he claimed that "our country is not strong any more, we're not respected any more." Carter never did make a strong substantive case against the Administration's foreign policy, but he managed to set much of the debate's tone and direction...
With the departure of Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to President Bok, to Fisk University, Harvard will bid farewell to its staunchest supporter of affirmative action. In his years at the University, Leonard has set the tone for minority education both here and throughout the country by working toward increasing the number of minorities and women in every area of the University. During his short tenure at the Harvard Law School, from 1969 to 1971, not only did the minority and female enrollment there increase tremendously, but the morale of these students rose accordingly...
Before assuming his current Mass Hall post in 1971, Leonard served as special assistant to Bok, who was then dean of the Law School. It was there that Leonard affected tremendous advances in the numbers of and attitudes toward minority students and women, setting a new tone for other institutions in the country and other parts of the University...
...Jean-Charles Tacchella's new romantic comedy. Throughout the movie, various inter-family assemblages, from funerals to Christmas eve parties, act as catalysts for, among other things, adultery, sex education, fist-fights, and, most important, the affair between two cousins that makes up the film's romantic content. The tone is consistently ebullient, the acting good and a few of the scenes are hilarious. But I think the critical raves this movie has garnered are all out of proportion to the small, if genuine, pleasures actually to be found...