Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...written by the poet himself, bear witness to their son's homesickness and general unhappiness there. In the letters he wrote at Yale and as a field artillery officer in France in 1918, a somewhat romantic earnestness begins to mingle with Ivy League wit. Though a little grating in tone, these letters provide some striking glimpses of nineteenth-century consciousness trying to make sense of the monstrous twentieth. "The thunderbolts of the King of Olympus were not more terrible." MacLeish writes, than his first view of modern warfare...
...most striking change is in tone. Last year's State of the Union speech was a self-confident stay-the-course message typified by this assertion to Congress: "I will not ask you to try to balance the budget on the backs of the American taxpayer." But last week he was stressing moderation and an appeal for bipartisan cooperation. To the Republican contributors at the Percy dinner, Reagan held up as a model the accord worked out among the White House, the National Commission on Social Security Reform and House Speaker Tip O'Neill, even though it includes...
...wholesale retreat from Reaganomics. The President, indeed, sees himself quite accurately as making the minimal concessions necessary to keep a rebellious Congress from attacking the core of his program, chiefly the income tax cuts, the social spending rollback and the big military buildup. For that matter, the change in tone is also less than total. Echoes of the chipper, partisan Reagan of yore rang through the President's remarks last week, and doubtless will resound in the State of the Union speech as well. At his news briefing, Reagan once more pinned blame for the recession on "the overtaxing...
Those moves set a favorable tone for the Nakasone visit. They also helped the Administration fend off criticism of Japanese policy emanating from Congress as well as from many business and labor leaders. Even as Nakasone was speeding along Pennsylvania Avenue on his way to the White House, President Reagan was receiving a delegation of U.S. industrialists and union officials, who asked him to take a firm stand with the Japanese Prime Minister. "The mood in the U.S. is to get tough with Japan," said Robert Delano, president of the American Farm Federation, whose members are upset about the protracted...
...York Times has never warmed to Reagan, but has not before criticized him so sweepingly. As Max Frankel, editor of the editorial page, says, "The credibility of the tone of voice counts when you are trying to reach readers tempted to resist your conclusions." But for Frankel the climate has changed: "Do we belong to the culture at large? Sure. The same editorial 18 months ago would have sounded hollow or bitchy...