Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This was the period of Kern's "Princess Theater musicals," written with Wodehouse (pre-Jeeves) and Bolton. At a time when Continental operettas were all the rage, these "midget musical comedies" -- airy, brash and daringly American -- created a theatrical revolution to a ragtime beat. They set the tone and tempo on Broadway for the next decade and beyond. When the style changed, it was again Kern who reshaped it, along with Oscar Hammerstein II. Their 1927 Show Boat, with its sweeping seriousness and its near operatic transformation of blues and folk music, paved the Great White Way for Porgy...
Whatever the gains from the increased opportunity to advertise, most attorneys continue to regard the practice as distasteful and undignified. An A.B.A. Journal study found that in 1984 only 13% of the attorneys surveyed placed ads of any kind; in 1979 the figure was 7%. Ads range in tone from the discreet, almost public-service messages on a Philadelphia classical-music station by Rawle & Henderson, the nation's oldest firm, to the outrageous grabbers of Ken Hur of Madison, Wis., the acknowledged "clown prince of adtorneys." The 300-lb. Hur's most famous TV commercial features him in | bejeweled scuba...
...attraction," observes the author. "Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears about it a faint flavor of the erotic . . . Surely everyone feels -- although some suppress -- the same prurient interest in others' privacies, what goes on behind closed doors." Novelist Margaret Drabble is brought on to elevate the tone: "Much fiction operates in the spirit of inspired gossip. It speculates on little evidence, inventing elaborate and artistic explanations of little incidents and overheard remarks that often leave the evidence far behind." In that observation lies the key to this perverse, diverting work. Throughout, Spacks finds novels and plays that...
Despite the prickly start, the two sides agreed to continue their talks on Aug. 27 and, in the meantime, to hold a symbolic reunion of a few families on Aug. 15, the 40th anniversary of the liberation. The generally amicable tone of the two days of talks was set by the South's chief delegate, Lee Yung Dug, who told his northern counterpart, Li Chong Yul, "I hope the days when true brotherly love could be shown between us come early...
...People like my sense of humour in lecture," says Fleming. Students describe his humor as bawdy, but Fleming says his humor is rooted in "the tone in which I discuss things." In fact, Fleming says he never tells jokes. "I can't remember them...