Word: tone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson lightweights entered the season more than ready, and a victory in their first match set the tone for the season...
...students have continually felt avenues closed off, the tone of the rallies has changed. ESAC Chair Alex H. Cho '96 described the April 19 demonstration for ethnic studies, which attracted more than 100 students, as "angrier and less polite in a lot of respects...
Tsai says the club pulled its name out of a protest over perceived Chinese aggression against Taiwan because the tone of the demonstration was too anti-China...
Unfortunately, none of the albums under consideration here are very good. In particular, Michael's new CD, Older, is hypocritical and dreary. The singer has been rebelling against his teenybopper past as co-leader of Wham! for some time now (his last album, which attempted a more serious tone, was titled Listen Without Prejudice Vol. I), but on this new CD he is not only a rebel without a cause, he also lacks energy and wit. On the song Star People he actually sings "Star People/ counting your money till your soul turns green/ Star people/ counting the cost...
...authors have, of course, done their homework, but neither anywhere near as diligently as, say, Jean Auel (Clan of the Cave Bear); they get C's at best. Despite their authoritative tone, these books are mines of misinformation--and not just in detail. They are to paleoanthropology what Indiana Jones is to archaeology--pure fantasy constructs. And while this may sound like carping on my part, given that these are, after all, works of fiction, it's fair to point out that no scientist likes to see his field of study caricatured--all the more so when the caricaturists have...