Word: tone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their contest should be among the most literate and witty in the nation this fall. During a panel discussion after the primary, Buckley referred to Moynihan as "professor," somehow managing to evoke with his richly cultivated tone the image of a chalk-dusty elitist woefully out of touch with reality. Up shot the Moynihan Mephistophelean eyebrow. With mock outrage he fulminated: "Boy, this campaign is getting rough. I might call you a businessman...
...currently disorganized Liberals in Parliament. In MacEachen's place, Trudeau appointed a rotund, voluble Newfoundlander named Donald Jamieson. His diplomatic experience is scant (his last post was Minister for Industry, Trade and Commerce), but Jamieson's known affection for the U.S. promises an improvement in the tone, at least, of U.S.-Canadian relations...
...past is still with us," admits Dean Rusk, "but it no longer sets the tone." It is the future that seems to inhabit the South. It is a rather surprising place for the future to be, and the region still wrestles uncomfortably with it, amid fears of homogenization...
Carter is a product of Georgia, and he moves easily in the two cities without which the state would be Alabama East. Atlanta and Savannah represent a wedding of the old and the new, and give Georgia the tone that distinguishes it from the rest of the South. Savannah drips with history, tradition and gentility. Atlanta is and was the transportation crossroads of the South. It is a city of stunning architecture, the regional headquarters of most of FORTUNE'S 500, cosmopolitan rather than provincial (only a quarter of the population is native-born...
...across racial and sectarian lines, dominating some bodies like the Southern Baptists and the Churches of Christ, acting as a counterweight in others, like the Methodists and Presbyterians. Southerners are the most churchgoing people in the nation, and from camp meeting through riverside baptisms to huge urban congregations, the tone and temper of Southern Protestantism is evangelical...