Word: tone
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Ashkenazy takes an elegant approach to the cycle, caressing the music with an exquisite tone and spinning it out with an effortless technique that lets the music speak unimpeded. In the robust First Concerto and the rippling Second, Ashkenazy pays homage to the music's Mozartean wellspring in a clean, carefully articulated reading. The Third Concerto finds him in a more passionate, but still fundamentally classic, mood; the piece was, after all, written around 1800, while Beethoven's teacher Haydn was still alive. The revolutionary Fourth Concerto, in which the piano daringly speaks before the orchestra, gets an introspective, reflective...
Inevitably, the U.S., boasting an output of goods and services about equal to that of the other six powers combined, determines the tone and much of the agenda. Its line has switched markedly with the identity of the man occupying the Oval Office. Jimmy Carter sought fairly close coordination of national policies amounting almost to a master plan for the world economy. Reagan during his first term preached reliance on the free market to promote global prosperity, and devoted much energy to denying that gargantuan U.S. budget deficits were damaging the world economy by keeping interest rates high and forcing...
This time, however, the Reagan team arrived at the summit sounding a markedly different rhetorical tone. "We need help," proclaimed Secretary of the Treasury James Baker in an internationally televised session with foreign reporters the week before. His point: the U.S. economy can no longer be the locomotive pulling the rest of the world behind it to vigorous growth. Others would phrase the problem more bluntly: some deft cooperative footwork may be needed to prevent an American slowdown from setting off a world recession...
...film's tone and style are similarly discreet. 1918 alludes rather than displays; at times it just sits there like a good deed. Occasionally, it will burst into dramatic feeling, as in Horace's bout of delirium, a wonderfully judged piece of writing and acting. But then characters will lose their edges in the diffused light that seeps through the windows like radiation and gives the picture its instant-nostalgia look. Important lines of dialogue will be muffled by heavy footsteps or a piano's plaint. The crucial event of the Robedaux family occurs offscreen, in a narrative caesura between...
...forget--but move on. These two themes impel Reagan on the eve of his trip. "I am hopeful that when people see and hear the tone of that day of remembering they will understand. I recognize that when I said once in answer to a question that the people in that cemetery, even though they were the enemy, the conquered enemy, that they too were victims of Nazism, someone interpreted that as meaning that they were as much victims as were the people in the Holocaust. No. The people in those camps have a memory that I doubt any other...