Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many parents it's their only opportunity to come up and see their children in this environment and context," said President of the Parents Association Thomas E. Crooks '49. "This is really the juniors' show they set the tone...
...Martin as Harris' stolid, stubborn husband; only McGoohan's automaton-like condescension seems unreal. Director Clifford Williams has sensitively evoked the rhythms of the play, which alternates between naturalistic bursts of action and spotlighted soliloquies. Much of the story is told after the fact, in an elegiac, ruminative tone, reminiscent of $ recent work by Tom Stoppard and Simon Gray. The epilogue leaves open the central question: When intimacy based on false assumptions still feels genuine, what does friendship mean...
...reflexively takes on the opposite mood to whatever her husband is feeling; the house salesman who comes close to true rapture in envisioning domestic bliss for all his customers. When Kitty, the best-sketched figure, loses her second husband to another man, the reader can guess the precise tone in which she describes her rival to divert sympathy: "Don't be silly. He's a nice man. If he had asked me, I would have moved in with him myself...
...swimmers turned a potentially close meet into a rout by setting the tone early. John Pearson and Tim Wood humiliated Cornell's Bob Buche, who dominated the 1650-meter freestyle last year at the Eastern Seaboards...
...perception that retired people are especially susceptible to inflation "is not supported by recent evidence," says the council in the dry, scholarly tone of the report. In fact, the elderly have done relatively better in keeping up with rising prices in recent years than the population as a whole. Social Security payments, tied by a 1972 law to the rate of inflation, went up 46% in real terms since 1970, while wages and salaries of people still working withered by 7%. Prices increased 312% between 1950 and 1983. During that same period, wages and salaries rose 412%, but the typical...