Word: toned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Near the Mencken tone of Hecht's early satire is the hilarious miracle which occurs when God liquidates radio broadcasting. He merely turns loose Heavenly static, and radio becomes a nightmare...
...editorial is also unfair to the Student Council committee, as it misrepresents their report which was moderate in tone, the principal points being that there should be greater emphasis placed on the teaching of art history as one of the humanities and less overconcentrating in the field. The Crimson has turned what was intended as constructive criticism into an hysterical and destructive attack...
...Several of them have served as advisers for Harvard Dramatic Club plays in which the Dean of Radcliffe has allowed students to take part. Mr. Sullivan may be a better judge of the tone of the play than Mr. MacLeish, but in any case the question is just what Mr. Sullivan means by indecent...
...picking out Old Black Joe on the piano is a man having a mildly good time. But he would be having a better time if he were extracting great ranges of dynamics and tone color from his instrument. To make amateurs feel like virtuosos has been, in recent years, one great object of U. S. electrical engineers. Six years ago Radio Engineer Benjamin Franklin Miessner patented an electronic piano, in which pickups and a loudspeaker do the work of a sounding board and make amateurs dynamic enough to bring in the neighbors. Today eight companies are licensed to make electronics...
Shiny new violins and shabby old violins were tested by Acoustical Physicist Frederick Albert Saunders of Harvard, in collaboration with Virtuoso Jascha Heifetz. Their conclusion (announced last week at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Manhattan): A Stradivarius violin, when played slowly, is not superior in tone to the best modern instruments, but responds more quickly when difficult rapid passages are played-a result probably of aging, not of the makers' skill...