Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tone Bok has set for Harvard has the unstated effect of shaping the University as a resource for the outside worlds of business and government. Bok presides over the continued diversion of faculty away from undergraduates and the onus of teaching their liberal arts disciplines toward the lucrative chance to serve as the intellectual resource bank for institutions outside the Harvard community...
However, Schlondorff fails to give a similar sense of irony to a Beckettian sequence with an eel fisherman on a stark beach. While Oskar keeps a cold, dark view on life, the film changes tone: now it is bleak and blue, now it is warm and red. Does Schlondorff misunderstand his little hero or has he simply made only token efforts at linking each sequence to the whole? He manages to reduce the most profound chapter of Grass' novel, a discussion about art and life between a midget magician and a soliderly artist to a frolicking picnic atop a cement...
...year-old, blue-eyed, frozen-faced lad who himself stopped growing at age six. Surrounded by a superb supporting cast, Bennent's Oskar watches the world with angry insolence, determined to drum, to examine the world of adults with studied innocence. His voice has a contemptible condescending tone that nonetheless seduces us. His high-pitched screams that break glass--art as a destructive protest--ring with the desperate tremor of a genius creating a master-piece. Bennent is terrifying in a Nazi uniform yet his cherubic smile is almost Christ-like in its beneficence. His Aryan forcefulness and unceasing intensity...
...Carter's tone at the press conference was generally conciliatory toward the allies. Though he admitted that he has "sometimes been disappointed at the rapidity of action and the substance of the action" that they have taken, he concluded that by and large "they have performed adequately." But the word "adequately" implied all that really needed to be said about the Administration's view of how the allies had behaved...
...expended on something as innocuous as a television commercial. But there is no doubt that Arlen also admires the ambition, talent and professionalism of these people he calls "communications era artisans." Thirty Seconds is itself a series of finely perceived, artfully arranged vignettes. So, despite the book's tone of asperity, it is no small compliment when one superior craftsman acknowledges the work of others. -R. Z. Sheppard