Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real equipment for it. I mean, I'm totally eclectic and derivative of the guys I've heard and loved." His one advantage for playing the old-style New Orleans stuff, Woody feels, "is that I am genuinely crude." Another advantage is his ability to reproduce the powerful, wailing tone of the original jazzmen. The biggest compliment he ever got as a musician, Woody says, was when he was jamming in New Orleans and local people told him how "indigenous" his sound was. Jazz clarinetist Kenny Davern agrees: "He has sought to get that New Orleans plaintive sound...
...Business School is not the only problem. Harvard College's athletic facilities are pathetically inadequate. More courts, bigger weight rooms, etc, are needed. We don't need a random housing lottery or a ritzy hotel; we need adequate gyms in which we can fortify our bodies as we tone our minds. Right now, we have just the over-crowded, undersized Malkin and the distant, busy QRAC. Of course, the Law School graciously offers undergrads use of Hemenway Gym. But then again, Hemenway isn't a gym, it's an architectural nightmare--a large closet with two backboards...
While the meeting produced more talk than action, its high-powered guest list and coverage by some 700 journalists, including anchors of ABC and CNN national networks, lent it a tone of drama and urgency. Not since Franklin Roosevelt's day had a President called the nation's Governors together. Topping F.D.R.'s agenda was a search for ways to cope with the Depression. Bush sought to deal with a crisis whose long-range results could prove no less catastrophic for American power and prosperity: the failure of U.S. schools to teach the basic skills needed to keep Americans productive...
...sarcastic tone, Gorbachev said, "The machine doesn't work. Get out your old weapons." The Deputies waved the credentials cards traditionally used for voting. Determined as usual to advance perestroika, Gorbachev kept the Deputies after the session for a lecture and a demonstration of how the new system was supposed to work. This time the technicians remembered to turn on the power...
Easing its assault on underage drinking on college campuses, the Senate agreed late Thursday night to tone down proposed legislation that would have severely restricted alcohol promotion on campus...