Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little trouble at first: besides the roar of planes and auto traffic that plagues all stadium concerts, she got too close to the mike, which turned her tone into a shrill whine. But midway through Tchaikovsky's Concerto in D, audience and critics alike knew they were listening to as powerful and fiery fiddling as they had heard all season. They let famed Violinist Erica Morini know...
...Boston Public Latin School's Joseph Lawrence Powers, 69, slight, billiard-playing headmaster of the oldest-and possibly the best-U.S. public school (founded 1635). A strict disciplinarian (in his best this-hurts-me-worse tone, he used to ask erring pupils, "Why didn't you give me a break so I could give you a break?"), Powers is an old Latin School student himself, has been on the faculty since 1906. The Powers prescription for scholastic success: hard work on a classical curriculum with a minimum of electives and no frilly courses...
Last week Columnist Hedda Hopper, in a patient, motherly tone, read the moviemakers a mild warning: "Every picture, whether good, bad, or stinky, is labeled 'colossal' or 'stupendous' . . . We must try to persuade those who have stopped seeing movies to form the habit again by telling the truth about our product, and rating a picture honestly, as fair, good, or perhaps great. Few are colossal, you know...
Millions of U.S. men, up before draft examiners in World War I and II, had their hearing tested by one simple method. The tester stood them against a wall, backed away 20 feet, started speaking in a low conversational tone, walked toward them, asked them to indicate when they could hear what he was saying. Does this test-which the Army, the Navy and the Veterans Administration still use-prove anything? No, says Dr. Aram Glorig, director of aural rehabilitation at the Army Medical Center in Washington...
Otherwise the exercises have been held every year since 1642, and although the traditional basis has been more or less the same, the tone of the festivities has varied greatly. A chronicle tells us that for the first exercises "nine Bachelours, the Governour, the Magistrates, and Ministers from all parts, with all sorts of scholars were present, and did hear their exercises. Then having dined together in Commons, they sang a Psalm and were well content." This note of austerity was lost toward the end of the Seventeenth Century, as the Harvard Commencement Day became a general State holiday...