Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that "the reader can determine exactly how much style he or she has to begin with." These tests are supposed to amuse as well as instruct, but if this is supposed to be a Preppy Handbook rip-off, it falls far short of the light and self-mocking tone that makes the Handbook readable...
...book still maintains a hint of the political leanings that inspired its creation. The tone falls somewhere between wry-liberal and responsible-moderate, amiably contemptuous of extremists of the Right or Left. Barone himself says he has turned more conservative since the days of the Vietnam protests, but he still proudly describes himself as a Democrat. His concern for the future of his party has led him to several of the recent soul-searching seminar Democrats have held since their 1980 debacle...
Salient editors described their first issue as "moderate to conservative" in tone, but they encouraged students to submit articles with differing political points of view...
...tone was somber as he spoke about the crisis that he insisted was generated by practical problems, not by any protest against the Communist system. Echoing Walesa, Jaruzelski declared: "We don't live in medieval times when people fought wars over ideas. To pull the country out of the crisis it is in, we need stability, law and order, and security. We'll pay special attention to law and order, and we'll do everything necessary to preserve...
...Came From Outer Space [Harvard Square]: And now to destroy the serious tone of this column. Channel 5 in New York used to have a show called Crature Features which ran at 8:30 Saturday nights. My parents didn't want me to watch it because they were afraid that horror movies would give me bad dreams. They were right, of course, but I watched them anyway. This movie, with the possible exception of The Blob, was the best bad horror movie they ever showed. Being presented this weekend, along with Creature From The Black Lagoon...