Word: tone
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...Washington, the Reagan Administration appeared to have been caught off guard by the events. Ever since the snap election, the White House has tried to set a deliberately cautious tone. With two key U.S. military installations, Subic Bay Naval Station and Clark Air Base, at stake, the Administration did not want to rush into a denunciation of Marcos. The Philippine leader has a reputation for ruthlessness, and U.S. officials were concerned that he might use loyal elements of the military to crush his opponents. On the other hand, the White House did not want to be seen as abandoning Aquino...
Those sentiments took on a more assertive tone at a White House press briefing. Spokesman Larry Speakes stated flatly that when the hotly disputed election results were "complete," both sides should "work to form a viable government without violence." A senior White House official was even blunter. Said he: "The main thrust of our statement is not to have demonstrations in the streets just because you did not like the election. A strong government is essential to maintain a peaceful resolution of the problems that face the Filipinos...
Boulez's music, derived from the twelve-tone system of Arnold Schoenberg, is devoid of conventional melodies and harmonies. Instead it is made up of bursts of tones that are combined into seemingly cacophonous passages, which tax both the ear and the mind. It can sound dense and abstruse at first acquaintance, yet, like the notion that Boulez is unfeeling, this too is a misper- ception. Forbidding though his music undeniably can be, it amply repays careful, open-minded listening, gradually revealing its sweep and surge...
...Even at that point, however, a senior Thiokol official at Cape Canaveral refused to endorse the recommendation," the Post quoted an unidentified commission member as saying. "This shook us to the socks. We were unprepared for it. It changed the whole tone of the investigation...
French Interior Minister Pierre Joxe set his jaw and adopted a determined tone. "The terrorists wanted to unsettle public opinion, and they have succeeded," he said. "But they also hope to intimidate the government, and there they will not succeed." Even as Joxe spoke, Paris was a city nearly under siege. A small army of police guarded transportation outlets and other key points. The tightened security was in response to a wave of bombings that had given the French capital a bad case of the jitters. A total of 21 people were injured, eight seriously, in three explosions that rocked...