Word: tone
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...Durang's years at Harvard were mostly unhappy and unproductive. Though he liked Harvard and the area, Durang found it impossible to write as easily as he had in high school. In addition to the usual self-doubt that most freshman experience, Durang was overwhelmed by the authoritarian tone of Harvard courses: "Certain Harvard classes...present things as if they were the most important thing, and I would sort of go, oh well, that must be the most important, and whatever I had to say or think was not that important... It just made me get quiet, very quiet...
Keynote speaker Evelyn HuDeHart, director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at the University of Colorado at Boulder, set the tone for the conference...
...matter how small were the details that the committee discussed, meeting without the students--the names of whom have still not been announced--set a poor tone for the review committee's future deliberations. It implied that students' initial opinions, their "impressions of the Core," are not all that important, after all. Scheduling meetings without students present also raises the possibility that the CRC's students may not be able to attend meetings with the Core subcommittees or the Undergraduate Council's student committee on undergraduate requirements. It would be ironic if the students on the CRC could not make...
Whatever role he finally plays--spoiler or kingmaker or king--Buchanan has already remodeled the tone and the substance of the G.O.P. race. Despite Census Bureau figures and polls that show flat wages are a central concern of most Americans, Buchanan is the only G.O.P. candidate to address the issue directly and with gusto. The left-wing Nation magazine calls Buchanan "the closest thing to a genuine populist in the 1996 race." The others seem to have found no way to talk about income inequality without offending their affluent base of supporters and campaign contributors. While Buchanan strikes a populist...
...Story and A Delicate Balance. With Three Tall Women, now playing at Boston's Colonial Theatre after an off-Broadway run in New York, Albee has deservedly won his third Pulitzer Prize. The play is about his adoptive mother, with whom he had a hostile relationship, yet the tone is reconciliatory, not spiteful. In an attempt to understand his mother after her death, Albee has created a flesh-and-blood portrait of a woman at the end of her life and the experiences which shaped...