Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wild-eyed revolutionary. Through Laszlo, Linson and Kaye make their feeble attempt at social commentary. He rages and sputters at the judge who sentences his teenage defendant Billy (Jon Matthews '83) to five years in prison for possession of a pound of marijuana. This first courtroom scene sets the tone of Laszlo's character for the rest of the film. He's passionate and irrational, but that...
...control of paperwork. He has taken thorough advantage of his opportunity to present his recommendations directly to Carter. Every morning the first appointment on the President's schedule is with Brzezinski. Sometimes they meet for only a few minutes, sometimes 15 or 20, and the session sets the tone for foreign policy discussions during the day. Every evening Vance used to send a letter to the President, which Brzezinski did not see. But the final phone call of the day usually came from Brzezinski...
...would falter as an architect of U.S. foreign policy. That relationship, Kissinger suggested, might demand such a simple thing as making sure that Muskie saw the President every morning before Brzezinski was allowed into the office. The Secretary of State, not the NSC aide, should set the direction and tone of the day's doings in the world. "That means Muskie had better arrange an appointment at 5:32 a.m. when Carter is in his shower," suggested one wag familiar with the energy and ambition of Brzezinski...
Alhough a few reporters were aware of the unusual activity at the White House, the secret held until the Government's carefully couched announcements were ready. The first, issued at 1 a.m., foreshadowed the tone of sorrow over the deaths but no regrets over the mission's launching that Carter later carried personally to U.S. television viewers in his early morning address...
...many are doubtful of Hill's claim that she translated her novel from English to archaic Lakota and then back to English to catch Sioux rhythms and emotional tone. Says Sioux Author Vine Deloria Jr. (Custer Died for Your Sins): "How in hell do you type up a manuscript in an ancient language that has never been written down and apparently has no symbols or alphabet?" Now Hill says she has been misunderstood: she did not write a complete Lakota version, but translated important concepts and phrases into Lakota, researched the root meaning of each Lakota term, then redid...