Word: toneed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nonetheless, however, the fall campaign still holds important weight for the rest of the year and has the potential to set the tone for the nationals...
...offered at the Brattle Theater on Tuesday, when Donald Hall and Galway Kinnell read as part of the Wordsworth Presents series. Hall and Kinnell are two very different poets, in style and in their range of concerns; but in addition to sharing a publisher, their poems share a conversational tone that at times makes them sound like a monologue or a stand-up routine. The poems in both of their new books are largely free-form, unmetered, anecdotal and sometimes jokey; in other words, perfect for reading aloud to an audience, especially an audience that hasn't read them before...
Each of these poets has come to this tone in a different way. Hall's long and venerable career, beginning (as he writes in "The Old Life," the central poem of his book) "on the Advocate in nineteen forty-eight," has taken him through a range of styles. After an early phase of neat, metrical poems, and a later bout with surrealism, his poetry has more recently developed certain regular characteristics: the use of ordinary diction; an engagement with certain issues, especially family history, the difference between urban and rural life and the approach of death; and, frequently...
Steyn said the Dean of Students office could have handled the affair better because the tone of the letter sent by Epps and Flatley was "insulting...
...them. By making it necessary that students visit at least 18 of the booths to enter a raffle, many students were forced to learn more about topics ranging from the lack of women in the United States Senate to human rights violations in Turkey. We are glad that the tone of the booths did not sway far from government issues and that they attempted to show the importance of a having a voice in government...