Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tone of cold authority...
...This tone of pedantic tolerance oozes from the book. Although billing the volume as a scholarly treatment, Wolpe does not rely on his theories to retain the reader's interest. Nearly everyone has some needless anxiety--a fear of heights or of strangers, of small dogs or public speaking. But Wolpe ignores these more common fears, packing his chapters instead with a parade of human oddities which belong in psychiatric journals or future editions of Ripley's Believe It Or Not. We meet Dale, a 33-year-old man who is deeply upset each day by the late afternoon...
...tone of the two meetings, which will take place at the U.S. and Soviet missions to the U.N., is sure to be less hostile than the long-distance non-dialogue would suggest, since Haig is primarily interested in determining whether cooperation with Moscow is still possible. In preparation for the sessions, he held a rehearsal over the weekend, with a veteran State Department official who has watched Gromyko in action playing the Soviet and asking questions he is likely to raise. The Secretary has decided to be sober and businesslike in presenting U.S. complaints, on the logical ground that there...
What to make of this slice of American pie, this pastoral adagio, this memoir-nightmare? Writer Wittliff has drawn the film's setting and tone from his childhood in a small Texas town off the gulf. Nita Longley (Sissy Spacek), a divorced woman with two sons, works in an isolated house as the town's switchboard operator. She meets a fresh-faced sailor (handsomely played by Eric Roberts); there is a tender affair, another man (Sam Shepard), a pair of resentful layabouts, an abrupt slash of melodrama. Except for the denouement, Raggedy Man proceeds with the even pace...
Knobler comes to Harvard by way of Los Angeles, and he has already noticed a difference of temperament between the two coasts. "Things can be very impersonal here," he says. "No one says, 'Have a nice day.' Some people think that's trite, but with the right tone, the right inflection and speed, it can be important...