Word: toned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incomprehensible feature,--of our U. S. civilization. . . . When the ordinary American hears of these cases instead of the idealist within him beginning to see red with the higher indignation, instead of English history growing alive in his breast, he begins to pooh-pooh and minimize and tone down the thing, and breed excuses from his general fund of optimism and respect for expedience...
...twentieth century, not only reproducing the notes and words of the music with admirable effect, but in every case grasping the spirit of the writer with a thoroughness and an intelligence truly great. Enunciation was uniformly good, every beginning and ending crisp and precise, ascents and descents of tone were excellently graduated. The men interpreted equally well the gentle philosophy of Praetorious, the resounding energy of Buck's "At Sea," Mendelssohn's smooth and flowing "Huntor's Farewell," and in Morley's enchanting "Now is the Month of Maying," following carefully the feeling of that light, delicate fragment of Shakespearean...
...course, there were certain defects, as was to be expected early in the season. The men seemed nervous in the beginning, and Bach's chorus, which demanded a powerful tone, was overdone. The violin obligate added little to Schumann's "Gypsy Life." Then, the program seemed rather long. Two hours and a half is quite a while to sit through any concert of this kind, especially when the program lacks some of the swinging numbers such as were sung last year. At the previous concert in Symphony Hall it was evident that the public came largely to hear Mr. Kreisler...
...almost no subject, outside of the Irish question, more likely to arouse latent passion that educational theory. Does our author vociferate that the moderns are right and that the older method of hammering knowledge into resistant minds is the only true one? "The Teacher's Dilemma" never raised its tone above politeness, and yet it is of more value than much arguing. The same genial spiral marks the discussion of such other matters as efficiency, genius, reconstruction, bolshevism, and what not. All this is both to say that we have here a volume of essays in the best tradition, marked...
...Unpreparedness of Liberalism" and "On the Evening of the New Day." Here be strikes out beyond the charming trivialties of Lamb and Hazlitt and Hunt, fraught though these terrifies often are with a deeper meaning, and enters a larger region. Old experience has reached its prophetic strain. Yet the tone remains that of the familiar essay. We become aware that this wise man, talking so informally, is able to see not merely the rabbit in his lettuce patch but the world as a whole. So we go back to "An Interview with an Educator," "The Pearls of the Literate," "Natural...