Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain had not fallen in those 200 days. Britain had not been invaded. From the time France cracked, Italian newspapers had predicted the invasion of Britain with such a tone of authority that they must have been told what Hitler had told Mussolini. Last week's meeting was a conference born of failure-Hitler's first failure in World...
...inescapable conclusion would be that cinema scores must be written with almost as much logic, creative power, and structural concern as a symphony or tone-poem. Unless the hundreds of musical notes used in a movie have some organic connection with each other, besides that of being in the same picture, unless they form a coherent unity by themselves, they will be no better on the screen than they would playd to audiences in the concert hall. Our Town was the revelation of a new approach, a significant step in the growth of American music...
Said she in a surprised tone of voice: "Why, Wendell! I don't think you recognized...
This set the tone for student anti-war agitation up until the invasion of Holland, and Belgium, at which time, although no formal poll of undergraduate sentiment was taken, the attitude of the undergraduates toward war could be summed up as follows: We will not fight just to preserve and restore democracy in Europe, and we see no direct threat to America in the present war--therefore we're against any involvement...
Resonance. Don't be ashamed of singing in the bathtub, advises Dr. Freeman, but "place your head directly above a wash bowl and hum loudly, starting with a low note and gradually raising the pitch [until you] find the bowl strongly reinforcing your voice tone. . . . An entire room, especially a small one, can some times be made to resonate in this way." Theory: different substances have different periods of natural vibration; when the voice finds them, they vibrate in sympathy. Men make better bathroom thrushes than women because modern plumbing is out of phase with higher-pitched voices...