Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...known until the actual transcripts are released. Dan H. Fenn, Jr., director of the library, said this week they would "become the primary source on how John F. Kennedy's mind worked." Neustadt said that they would serve as "appropriate supplements to documents," stressing the insight from the tone of voice used by those taped. Their value also hinges on the quality of the tapes, he added...
...cast, Joseph Maher masterfully conveys the joy and the juice of the play's language. The speeches vary from the fuming arias of a John Osborne to the wryly caustic asides of a Simon Gray (Otherwise Engaged), and Maher enthralls the playgoers with the subtle nuances of a tone of voice...
...well-deserved reputation for temperamental perfectionism that has given headaches to many a colleague and caused her to cancel a number of important engagements. Blessed with a large voice that easily spans three octaves, Stratas was selected to sing the title role in Alban Berg's thorny twelve-tone shocker Lulu, when the complete opera-with its suppressed third act orchestrated by Friedrich Cerha-was given its world premiere in Paris in 1979. The late conductor Karl Böhm, mindful of Stratas' electric stage presence and lithe figure, chose her for his filmed version of Richard Strauss...
...telephone service, Bell Labs invented a plethora of devices and systems. Among themf Direct Distance Dialing (1951), Wide Area Telephone Service (WATS lines, 1961) Touch-Tone (1964) and the 911 emergency communications system...
...walked over it. But Dreamland and remained gray; gray shadows broken and heightened by little bands of neon, when the Bells of the past spoke to Thomas Scott Bell at Harvard, calling in his own mind to him above the clutter and emotion of being tremendously alone in a tone of evil desperation, as if he was their last foothold in the world beyond Dreamland, beyond the world where the Prince Emmanuel reigned supreme, and they now required something from him. Thomas Scott Bell walked in the rain of a Cambridge winter day, unconcerned about an exam later the same...