Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mind to the General Assembly on Thursday. The address had originally been set for Tuesday, before he sat down with either Shultz or Reagan. But after his arrival in New York, Gromyko cagily rescheduled to the later date for "technical reasons." That would give him the option to tone down the expected tough line of the speech if he wanted to respond favorably to Reagan's address or to overtures made by Shultz in private. Most analysts predicted that Gromyko would stick to his original text. "He will probably give us a good deal of tough stuff...
...most visible signs, to be sure, point in the opposite direction. Polls have never looked gloomier for Democrats: a national survey by NBC News, published last week, showed Ronald Reagan leading Mondale by an astonishing 62% to 32%. Press coverage of the campaign is still predominantly funereal in tone. A sample headline from the New York Times, over a story about the attitudes of Democrats running for state or local Offices: SOME CANDIDATES FEAR MONDALE'S VISITS. The nominee is having trouble these days simply making himself heard over the jeers of pro-Reagan hecklers who now turn...
...Republicans, led by White House Chief of Staff James Baker, were most concerned about structure and tone: they wanted to avoid the kind of highly charged, confrontational exchanges that Mondale had last spring with his Democratic rivals. Mondale Campaign Chairman James Johnson and his colleagues were insistent about timing: they wanted long debates late in the campaign. Each side got what it most wanted. Said a member of Reagan's team: "We gave up a little in terms of dates and stood our ground on the question of format." In the debates, four journalists will each ask two questions...
Birnbach (Brown '78) bases her insights on more than rumor; she visited every campus in the book. Ducking into bars, attending the odd class, she sought students, professors and administrators, and distributed nine-page questionnaires. "I stayed in dorms," she declares in the tone of a war correspondent. "I ate cafeteria food every...
...made the magazine's "TRB" column an eccentric but successful blend of sardonic humor and compassion for some unlikely subjects, including Michael Jackson and lottery-ticket buyers. The magazine is less beloved by some of its traditional subscribers: many of those who canceled complained of the shift in tone. Editor Victor Navasky of the rival Nation (circ. 53,000) notes that the New Republic's diversity rarely extends to airing the views of true radicals. The magazine is inflexible in its support of Israel and has what Hertzberg concedes is an "obsession with the Middle East...