Word: tone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There was also the memorable, if laughable, reference to "family values"--an appeal to tone down Hollywood and an admonition against teen pregnancies. I could just imagine a bewildered Dan Quayle watching as the same man who targeted the Republican cry for "family values" as his principle object of ridicule in the 1992 campaign now spouted it as if he had coined the phrase...
...Dole sanded down the speech himself. "We took out all the harsh stuff," he says. "We took out the stuff about Hollywood. We took out a lot of stuff about Clinton because we wanted to tone it down a lot. We didn't want it to be a legislative speech. We wanted it to be about values in America and where we go from here." On Tuesday Dole floated a draft past Gingrich, who, according to a Dole aide, said, "I wouldn't change a word of it. No one will ever say you don't have a vision again...
...song of optimism (the effectiveness of that approach is underscored by candidate Steve Forbes' success). Every week for the next few months, Clinton plans to reprise themes from the State of the Union. This is the Reagan model for staying on message. Says Stephanopoulos: "The President set the tone for the year Tuesday night. Now we have to reinforce, reinforce." Clinton must also avoid lapsing into self-pity, an occupational hazard for late 20th century Presidents, and making gaffes like the one in Texas, when he told a gang of corporate honchos that those tricky Republicans made him raise their...
Russell's despairing tone is frequently echoed by contemporary thinkers. Thus the French Nobel-prizewinning biologist Jacques Monod writes, "Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he has emerged only by chance...
...book certainly ends with a strong tone of disillusionment with the Stantons. Is this how you feel about the Clintons...