Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easier for the audience to read the first and second acts as a light hearted attempt to poke fun at campus stereotypes rather than as a statement about their motives. But this lighthearted tone strikes a sour note at the end of the second act with the tragedy of Joan for which the audience is unprepared...
None of these histories is lost on the present Miss America, who says she has always been ambitious and driven, and no one more than she knows the risks. "I am sacrificing a year," she says, sounding fully aware. The tone of self-confidence brings back other voices that sounded that way at the beginning and sounded different at the end. "I wanted to get into show business," said Venus Ramey (1944). "I thought the contest would be a good entree. It is, all right: an entrée into oblivion...
...counterattack: it drew 83 participants, vs. 63 in 1981, and included news organizations from the U.S., most of Western Europe, Japan and countries as diverse as Finland, India and Peru. Said Jean Gerard, U.S. Ambassador to the agency: "This makes UNESCO a little less anxious to take a confrontational tone." Still, Gerard believes that the agency has not sufficiently recognized the value of unregulated coverage: the U.S. will propose next month that UNESCO agree that a free press stimulates economic growth and that the press is the best "watchdog" of itself...
...This Man and Music, Burgess sets out to see what his two arts have to say to each other. Music, of course, does not "say" anything; its content is tension and release. It communicates, but mysteriously, as "a semiotic organization." When the symphonic tone poems of Berlioz and Strauss try to incorporate narrative and character, the novelist in Burgess protests...
...about the new coal-leasing review commission consisting of "a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple." It nearly got Watt ousted a few weeks ago. It might yet. Why? Surely the substance of his remark is not taboo. In the right hands, with the right tone, a joke about the overexacting demands of affirmative action could result in genuine, harmless hilarity. But not with Watt. When he tells a joke, the prisoners start to riot...