Word: tone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That is the opening. The tone never fluctuates...
...ease with which Harvard tied the game set the tone for the rest of the afternoon, though it was yet another two quarters before the game was iced away. A few poorly timed fumbles--surprise!--prevented an early rout...
Jimmy Carter? His acceptance speech, he said, "not inadvertently shifted back and forth between liberal and conservative, but I think it was uniformly populist in tone." Is he a populist? "I think so." But what's a populist? "I'll let you define that...
...only for the sense you acquire of Rainer's oeuvre--the first heady obsessions followed by a period of drift, and then a strong, clear push in a new direction. Rainer never directly analyzes the transformation from her early to late work, stating only that she hopes the changed tone of her writing demonstrates "my uneven development from intransigent artist-as-an-outraged-young-woman...
...from the feds and the state. In the anteroom of his office in Prattville now stands a Burroughs 500 computer terminal that is plugged into Alabama and FBI crime information centers. Near by is a $30,000 radio console. Parked outside are eight patrol cars, a two-tone green 1976 van and a shiny motorcycle. Last week Turner was cruising about in a helicopter on loan from a federal civil defense program. The sheriff has also spent half of his grant money to train his staff, which has grown from three to 17 deputies-including two blacks...