Word: tone
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...moment, however, such doubts are being publicly brushed aside. The tone of the session was set last week by House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who is making a remarkable comeback. O'Neill was so badly outmaneuvered by President Ronald Reagan in 1981 that Republicans openly laughed at him on the floor of the House, and not a few Democrats snickered behind his back. But the recession and the midterm election that transformed the nominal Democratic House majority into a real one have made his liberalism seem more relevant. O'Neill last week told some 240 House Democrats...
...explore the problems the Christ stars poses for modern youth. In performance, though, while the company takes some stabs in that direction emphasizing the sensual in Jesus's relationship with Mary Magdalen, for instance, and painting a startlingly sympathetic Judas-- they prove unable to maintain an even enough tone for such analysis Jesus's followers come across as suitably starry-eyed, dutifully and competently executing just a trifle too muchchoreography; the Apostles, confusingly enough, are written as insensitive, wine-soaked and opportunistic sods who don't know what's happening under their noses, making Judas shine by comparison. The Romans...
...delivery was flawless, his tone somber, his message meant to be reassuring. "Our children should not grow up frightened," Ronald Reagan said. "They should not fear the future." But the President's approach to preventing nuclear war was of itself, and necessarily, a frightening thing: he urged deployment of 100 huge new MX intercontinental ballistics missiles in a Dense Pack cluster near Cheyenne...
...cream of Gardner's choices are stories that bridge these wild swings of mood and tone. Raymond Carver, the John Cheever of machinists and misfits, contributes a characteristically unusual short fiction. By the end of "Cathedral," the sarcastic hero, his eyes shut, is sharing a ballpoint pen with a blind visitor. Together they are drawing a cathedral. "My eyes were still closed. I was in my house and I knew that. But I didn't feel inside anything," he reports. He says to the blind man, "It's really something." Readers of Best American Short Stories will...
...aquamen--unshaved and unrested--made it clear from the opening event that they had very different intentions. The 400-meter relay set the tone for the day's contest, with Columbia grabbing the lead after the butterfly leg only to have senior Captain Ted Chappell surge past Lion sophomore Nick Monroe in the freestyle anchor to nail the Crimson victory...