Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lunch in Munich. Foote's Handbook for Spies is an unpretentious, understated account of the job he did for his Russian employers. Readers looking for cloak-&-dagger excitement will not find it here. But the lack of phony tension and climax gives the book its own quiet tone of truth. Writes Foote: "The only excitement a spy is likely to have is his last, when he is finally run to earth." Foote was run to earth just once, fortunately for him in neutral Switzerland...
Editor Grosvenor wields an autocratic blue pencil, even on articles written for the Geographic by U.S. Presidents, e.g., Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Coolidge and Hoover. Most articles and "legends" (captions) are written by the studious, well-paid editorial staff of 149. Grosvenor sets the tone, which is frequently florid, sometimes quaint, always polite. Says Grosvenor: "We prefer to print only what is of a kindly nature." He has even found a friendly word to say for wasps...
Today's Fun. Seen together, her pictures looked extraordinarily alike in tone and content. Thinly painted in tempera and oil glazes on pressed-wood panels, they all had the vague shimmer of reflections in a forest pool. Their subject was almost invariably girls, mainly girls who spend their nights in Brooklyn and Queens rooming houses and their days working in the garment lofts, offices and novelty factories around Manhattan's Union Square, where Bishop has her studio...
...This," notes Potter, "is the lightest of trips; yet if properly managed the tone of voice can suggest that you can afford to say the obvious thing because you have approached your conclusion the hard way, through a long apprenticeship of study...
...feet and puffing a big cigar after many toasts, he let them in on his plans. He would continue to record, for the "benighted and tone-starved multitudes of the New World who lack the advantages of English musical culture." More important, he let them in on the anatomy of his vitriol: "There is something about a large gathering that brings out my basest instincts. Before a crowd of 1,000, I am malicious. Before 5,000, I am positively evil, and, facing a crowd of 10,000, I am compelled to say the most abominable things...