Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SECTIONS are even worse. While I sit through lecture with a vague feeling of malaise, the weekly one and a half hour section completely unnerves me. Sections vary greatly in tone and quality, to be sure, with more than 40 offered every week, but as a minority student in a class discussing "white guilt," I am becoming more disturbed as the semester progresses. It is not an enjoyable or comfortable situation...
...giving exposure to many black performers ("I have a commitment to correcting the wrongs of TV history"), Hall insists he is doing a show for everybody, black and white. "I'm out to bring the ghetto to the suburbs and the suburbs to the ghetto. I want ((rapper)) Tone-Loc and Major Ferguson, Fergie's dad, on the same couch. Most white people have never been to a party at a black person's house. I hope they say, 'This one looks nice -- maybe...
...That's not what [the petition] was about," Shaffner said. "We didn't agree with the tone of the petition and felt that it was basically an antichoice document cloaked in neutral language," Shaffner said...
President Bush campaigned for GOP candidates in Virginia, New Jersey and New York in an election season that served as prelude to 1990, when hotly contested congressional races will set the tone for national politics leading up to the next presidential election...
When Governor Michael S. Dukakis tomorrow announces tax increases intended to prevent budget cuts in social programs, he will continue the agressively defensive tone initiated during the State of the State address last week...