Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real danger in American foreign policy has never been an unwillingness to use force, but rather a feeling that all problems have military solutions. Jebsen tries to cloud his arguments in a tone of reasonableness, but we should be wary of a man who faults someone for opposing the deployment of American troops in Lebanon. Jebsen suggests that El Salvador is different from Vietnam because it has only 5 million people, not 40 million, implying that we could "win" in El Salvador. This kind of thinking led the Reagan administration to invade the tiny island of Grenada. It is unfortunate...
...Freshman is assuredly no novel. It is completely and unabashedly a detective story, and a light-hearted one at that, with Harvard providing the splotches of local color. Its closest relative in the genre is Amanda Cross's Death in a Tenured Position, which has the same lightly sardonic tone. But unlike Cross's book, which unfolded among the junior faculty of the Harvard English Department with only an occasional student flashing across the screen, Silver's is firmly rooted in the Yard...
...show, a magazine series, "will be resolutely American, with no foreign reporting," says Kuralt, "and celebratory in tone. We do not expect to find any scandals or scoundrels." Segments this week include whimsical essays by Kuralt, political humor by Art Buchwald, a report by Correspondent Bill Kurtis asking whether Muhammad Ali is punch-drunk, and a story by Correspondent Andrew Lack about a boy with a malady that his parents diagnosed when doctors could not. Plus, of course, an On the Road about a Missouri man who writes down the names of everyone he has ever met. The show...
...images of the life that lies beyond our own bodies have acquired a swarming, teetering richness, a lyricism of impulse and a sharp oddity of tone that look and feel like no one else's. America is not short of banal nature art with worthy moral lessons: Save the whales, admire the mallard, reflect on the moral transformation of the seagull. The boots one sees protruding from this tumulus of Orvis-catalogue kitsch are poor dead Thoreau's. But to bring a whole mode of invention to bear on some aspect of the natural world, to reinvent...
...snowsuit - it's not polite to inflict it on others." But there is no escaping from natural law. Tommy learns to place the comforting theories of his teachers and parents alongside the facts of the human predicament as he sees and hears them. The result is irony, a tone that McPherson manages with untiring subtlety and poignance...