Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shooting, we shall not stand idly by." So declared Prime Minister Menachem Begin as he tried to reassure a worried Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee of the Knesset that Israel's security had not been unduly compromised by the ceasefire with the Palestinians. Begin's gruff tone-and the contentious nature of the meeting-reflected Israel's mood last week as it counted the costs, military and political, of the 14 days of fighting and the uneasy peace that followed...
...Sanskrit words for truth and firmness. But perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the opera, given its American premiere at Artpark in Lewiston, N.Y., last week, is the music itself. Melodically sensuous, harmonically simple and rhythmically hypnotic, Satyagraha rejects the dominant musical style of the postwar era, twelve-tone serialism. Yet it does so gently, even serenely: the composer has practiced what Gandhi preached...
After days of crosscutting between sentiment and starkness, Frank Reynolds of ABC exactly caught television's about-to-change tone on the wedding eve by proclaiming, "It is now fairy-tale time," which would be a "respite from reality." And though the recorded voice of Vera Lynn was summoned up, singing There'll Always Be an England ("If England means as much to you/ As England means to me"), and though NBC'S John Hart took a smarmy look at Lady Di's old school to see how proper English girls got their special "edge...
...have taken care of their voices. In a program of opera arias and art songs, this new texture enhanced what was already a remarkable instrument. Her impassioned performance of Tu che la vanità from Don Carlos showed that she can sing more demanding music with out forcing her tone or altering the quality of her voice...
...difference in tone between the speeches reinforced a perception in Washington that relations between the two men, once warm colleagues, are strained. That at least is the way their aides perceive it. At the Pentagon, Haig is seen as being overly sympathetic to the Europeans, despite their reluctance to commit sufficient funds to beef up NATO. At the State Department, Weinberger is regarded as clumsy and even downright crude in his approach to military issues that have diplomatic overtones, such as deployment of the neutron bomb and the upgrading of Theater Nuclear Forces in Europe...