Word: toning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tone and temper of the current special session show that Congressmen know aid to Europe is needed," William Y. Elliott, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science and staff director for the Herter Committee, declared yesterday...
...Signature is an attractive-looking job, with its makeup improved over the extinct Radditudes. The cover, a pleasant photograph of a girl outside Harvard Hall, sets the inter-collegiate tone, while the football-weekend montage inside lends the timely mood. The new magazine has set itself a road to travel; the need for it seem to be there; and this issue is worth its thirty-five cent price...
Although the Nassau group boasted an exceptionally impressive tonor section, its frequently "late" basses often helped create the suggestion of shouting, rather than meat fortissimo, which already followed failure to use the covered tone device. This technique works for mellowness at the expense of some strength...
...renditions of love songs from "Liebeslieder Walzer" by Brahms, the Crimson exhibited feeling and restraint which directly rested upon the use of covered-tone throughout. Similarly in the treatment of "A Lieta Vita" in the Gastoldi trie the Club's controlled vocal quality, which had to overshadow the same mechanical lack of sponaneity apparent in the opening number, "Glorius Appollo," triumphantly impressed itself...
When the Mountain Fell is largely a triumph of perfected style. Its legend-like tone and natural, village-talk dialogue give it a quality of universality, keep it, in spite of place names and details of locale, from becoming merely a Swiss regional tale. It poses no "problems" except basic human ones which turn on love, fear, faith, generosity and loyalty. U.S. readers will get here what few other recent books have given them-a genuine literary experience...