Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Wallace, traveler to China, looked up in surprise at this mention of politics. In a tone of gentle rebuke, he said he just did not understand what they were talking about. For himself, his mind was on China, on the world. Baffled, Sam Rosenman went back to his food...
...tone and approach of P.A.C. is apparent in the very first sentence of its Political Primer for All Americans (2,000,000 copies have already been distributed). Says the Primer: "Politics is the science of how who gets what, when and why." This is a full 2,000 years and many miles of Marx-marked thought away from Aristotle's "The good of man must be the end of the science of politics." But, though neither idealistic nor pious, the Primer's opening shocker is unquestionably as American and up-to-date as the word "realism...
During the past 35 years, he has trouped with his choir from California to Rome, where he was a great favorite with Pius X. In Milwaukee his playful choir boys stuffed the trombones and tubas, for an accompanied number, full of newspapers. The resulting tone, says Father Finn, "sounded like everybody was playing a fine-toothed comb. I had to ring the curtain down so we could fix things." In Regina, Saskatchewan, Finn found himself without a baton. A gentleman, "a true gentleman," says Finn, "took the rung of his chair and whittled it down so that it would...
...tone of the conference showed that the auto industry is not really fighting off reconversion. Plainly, while willing to take Federal control over military production, the motormen want none of it, if possible, in peacetime carmaking. Actually, Detroit's reconversion plans are way ahead of Washington's. At the meeting automen stressed that what they really need is machine tools. If the Government will release these, the automobile industry will be three-quarters of the way along its own private road to reconversion...
...further area where taste, artistry and individuality are paramount. No two master tuners will tune a piano exactly alike, nor will any master tune a piano the same way for different occasions. A piano that is perfectly tuned and "regulated" (by fluffing up the felt hammers to soften tone) for a broadcasting studio will sound all wrong in Carnegie Hall. A piano that is to accompany a violin is adjusted differently from one that is to accompany a cello. A tuner with a sensitive personal touch will tune pianos differently for different pianists. Virtuosos such as Josef Hofmann...