Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard-Yale and Tech-Georgia are both the type of rivalries that can dominate a season. A win makes a losing season sweet. A loss, and even the league title is bitter. Yet the tone of the two events could hardly be more different...
...Times food criticism might realize. Sokolov's 1975 novel, Native Intelligence, told the story of a Harvard genius whose exploits in Africa in the Peace Corps seem to leave his abiding Ivy League smugness and a self-satisfaction unscathed; he followed it with a cookbook. As the often jocular tone of Native Intelligence indicates, he has less of a taste for dictating the ingredients of a successful life than a successful souffle...
Above all, Reagan hopes to convince Americans that he is going to follow a steady policy of combatting inflation, instead of the unsettling zigzags of the Carter Administration. Says Caspar Weinberger, Reagan's top budget adviser: "The first year is terribly important in setting the tone...
...reason may be that political advertising has abruptly vanished from television-a sweet, almost subliminal improvement in the moral atmosphere. No more candidates hagiographically displayed, saints mixing radiantly with the adoring throng; no more of those sarcastic prosecutorial voice-overs about the other guy, the pitchman's tone as low and urgent and insinuating as a whisper of Cassius in the ear. No more that tussling, scuffling sound of the reluctant national psyche being dragged on a leash toward a booth with curtains and a lever...
...together by their ideal roundness. You cannot keep a soap bubble in a box, or fit the planets into one; but starting with two of the Dutch clay bubble pipes he acquired at the New York World's Fair in 1939, Cornell was able to construct an entire tone poem about effigies and similarities: an 18th century French planetary map, two wineglasses (distantly recalling Dante's crystal heaven), a cork ball, a fossil ammonite unwinding its eternal spiral...