Word: toning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since 1914 anything with the tag "German" has had a hard road to travel, and we may well attribute to racial bias the prejudiced, unjust, and indeed, insulting tone of Mr. Gambet's communication. JOSKPH BRADLEY '24. November...
...underlying purpose of the society is to gather together those men in each class who lead in scholastic attainments, and also by the example and activity of this group of scholars to raise the intellectual tone of the whole undergraduate body. The criterion of election is always the candidate's scholarship, the ascertainment of which has come to be undertaken in accordance with a definitely formulated elective system...
...whether this article makes a good case or not, but that it should be written at all". Perhaps I misinterpret 'this remark--certainly it sounds rather extraordinary to me. Then he puts quotations around the word "Cultural". I trust I am wrong in thinking that they indicate a peculiar tone of voice...
...years ago Mr. Moiseiwitsch showed what a superb musician he is by playing the Schumann A minor concerto; yesterday he proved himself an equally fine technician in the Russian Teherepnins concerto. Particularly in whispered passages, Mr. Moiseiwitsch's tone seems unexcelled; in forte passages his (or the piano's) tone was less sympathetic. The orchestral parts of the concerto were not startling...
...Also Sprach Zarathustra", for which Boston has so long waited, was very disappointing. Hauslick has said that the program (of this tone-poem at least) was put in to give the music an interest which was not there. Perhaps he was not unjust...