Word: tone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about the last argument, the potential damage to minority recruiting programs. Bok's speech was characteristically tempered. He said he greatly regretted the recent "publicity" casting doubt upon the quality and competence of students at the Med School. Dean Ebert's statement was much more in keeping with the tone of the day. He assailed Davis on several counts of irresponsibility and later in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine accused Davis of attacking all minority recruitment programs...
...cannot understand how your article could conspicuously lack a tone of moral outrage. I also find appalling the suggestion that any U.S. effort to address this situation would be ineffectual and that our only alternative is resignation. We have economic leverage over large and small countries alike...
...crass and boss-ridden as they once were, but they are just as synthetic in an up-to-date show-biz way. Newsmen used to armor themselves against the hokum by reporting it in the cynically fond style of amused outrage made popular by H.L. Mencken. That tone is harder to sustain these days, and a good many reporters and editors are now asking whether they are covering conventions in the right...
...studiously took time last week to prepare himself for his bid for the presidential nomination. Before breakfasting with Nancy, he vigorously rolled an exercise wheel to tone up his 65-year-old physique, which could pass for that of a man half his age. Reagan eats sparingly, drinks an occasional screwdriver or a glass of wine, and averages a healthy eight hours of sleep each night. Far from taxing his energies, the strenuous campaign seems to have invigorated him. Although he is extraordinarily self-disciplined, he also has been suspected of being somewhat lazy, so his aides were pleasantly surprised...
Between calls, Reagan confidently made notes for an acceptance speech. At one point he canceled eleven press interviews to devote full time to strategy for giving the G.O.P. platform a Reagan tone. Although he is normally not an early riser, he surprised Aide Peter Hannaford in Kansas City with a 7:45 a.m. call to check on the progress of foreign and domestic policy planks. His concern with the platform is intense; Reagan believes his campaign will shape national debate for years...