Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result of this skepticism, the group's actions sometimes took on an ironic tone. In the middle of last year, on March 23, the group presented President Bok with the first C. Clyde Fergusen Award, "for-extraordinary effort, and significant contribution toward enchanting the diversity of the students, faculty and staff of Harvard University." President Bok responded, "I accept the award in a very different spirit--as a recognition that we have made some serious effort in pursuit of equality and diversity, as a sign that you have not abandoned hope in what we can do, and most...
Meanwhile, the members of the Black Faculty and Administrators struggle to reconcile their minority concerns with their positions as employees of the University. Thus far, this "inside" position has lent a more moderate tone to the group's demands. But if Black hiring does not rise in coming months, their demands may acquire a harsher note...
...main factor behind the decision. Suspense had been building for weeks about the East German leader's visit. The Soviet Union had made clear, in a virulent propaganda campaign against the West Germans, that Honecker ought to think twice about seeking to improve relations with Bonn. The shrill tone of the attacks left no doubt that Moscow expected East Berlin to support to the full the Soviet hard line against the deployment of new U.S.-built missiles in Western Europe...
...have a policy," John Quinn, its editorial director, says. But he urges his editors to pick columnists across a broad spectrum of views. Similarly, the Wall Street Journal, with the most rigidly polemical editorial page of any major paper, seeks to vary its Johnny-one-note tone by using some outside voices. Irving Kristol and Arthur Schlesinger are well-matched middleweights, but was Alexander Cockburn craftily picked for his left-wing pyrotechnics or as valid spokesman for a point of view...
STRAUSS: Also Sprach Zarathustra; Macbeth (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon). Who could have predicted that a tone poem based on Friedrich Nietzsche's notions of the death of God, the will to power and the rise of a superman would become one of symphonic literature's greatest hits? Yet long before Director Stanley Kubrick popularized its spectacular organ and brass apostrophe in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Strauss's blazing essay in orchestrational virtuosity ranked high in audiences' esteem. Maazel and the Viennese give this mettle tester a commanding reading, capturing the grandeur...