Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University's mild moral tone has taken the shape of Harvard as mediator, attempting to get companies with South African investments to enforce the Sullivan principles...
Columbia University officials yesterday admonished first-year football Coach Jim Garrett for his postgame comments following Saturday's 49-17 loss to Harvard, and warned him to tone down future remarks. The following are excerpts from Garrett's postgame press conference...
Columbia University officials yesterday admonished first-year football Coach Jim Garrett for his postgame comments following Saturday's 49-17 loss to Harvard, and warned him to tone down future remarks...
...show has the difficult task of living up to Rod Serling's classic series, but the early signs are encouraging. A segment in the premiere show features Melinda Dillon as a harried housewife who has the power to make her noisy world stop dead in its tracks. The tone of antic irony, however, leaves the viewer unprepared for a bleak and jarring denouement. Better realized is a future segment starring Comedian Robert Klein as a man who is plunged into a world where words have inexplicably changed their meaning. It is a nifty premise, directed in lucid, economical style...
...Endowment for Divestiture, perhaps better than any other wing of the divestment movement, has captured the new, more moderate tone of campus activism and new goal of broadening the political scope of the movement. Since its founding three years ago, the Endowment, a fund that will not be given over to the University until it divests, has gained hundreds of active supporters. The Endowment is designed as an alternative to the traditional Class Gift campaign, where graduating seniors are asked to donate money to the University...