Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relay race with Harvard seeded somewhere back in the pack. "We beat them by a couple of feet, I don't know why, but we got first (and a University and GBC record along with Joe Salvo, Kim Stephens, and Peter Nsiah). It was great, that race set the tone for the meet. It said, 'Hey, Harvard is here to run and win.' We won the GBC's that day--I'll never forget...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH wanted to make not only his views but also his tone emphatically clear: "I consider myself a part of the liberal majority," he said in a recent interview at his home on Francis Avenue. And he obtains exactly the reaction he seeks, Liberal majority in the age of Reagan? Galbraith, intimidated neither by the President nor the latest news from Gallup, then proceeded to a lucid and convincing evocation of liberalism as the true doctrine of most Americans--"a pragmatic adjustment to circumstance"--and conservatism as the ideological dogma of unrealistic purists...
...never experienced the transfer of presidential power from one side of the political fence to the other, and they were not sure what to expect after Giscard's regal exit. As it turned out, François Mitterrand's inauguration attempted to set a deliberately plebeian tone. France's new Socialist President arrived at the Elysée Palace dressed in a plain, dark flannel suit and a red tie. On hand to greet him at the top of the steps of the presidential palace was Giscard, who, after a brief handshake, took his successor...
...till the end of the movie to wreak his vengeance-by socking Boyle in the nose. Maybe that's how disputes will be settled on the cold moons of Jupiter, but Hyams might have delivered a stronger jolt to the audience if he had dared to follow the tone suggested by his title...
...Kennedy, a three-hour ABC-TV movie to be aired in the fall, Smith has doffed her Charlie's Angels halo for the bouffant hair and pillbox hats the 31st First Lady helped popularize. Voice lessons and video tapes of Jackie's White House tours helped Smith tone down her Houston drawl to a Vassaresque whisper. Scenes filmed around the capital included one dealing with Jackie's $42.50-a-week stint in the early '50s as the "Inquiring Camera Girl" for the now-defunct Washington Times-Herald. Though the former First Lady eventually covered the coronation...