Word: toning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lady's Not for Burning has a certain grandeur of language and sentiment, of metaphor and tone. The Harvard Dramatic Club has added a grandeur of production. The first hint of a truly fine performance comes even as the curtain rises on a massive, more or less gothic set admirably suited to Fry's time direction: "1400 more or less exactly...
...themes may be serious but the tone is light, and the creatures who take themselves most seriously eventually find flaws in their systems. The Chaplain, for all his awkwardness, comes closest to being a true philosopher but even he fails. We have a set of characters, almost all intrinsically humorous, brought together, contradicting each other and themselves, alive in a world where everything seems accepted and nothing abnormal, and only love somes...
...relations with the underdeveloped ition is based--as essentially it must be--on true self-determination and not on self-determination as acceptance of the American way, Williams' doubts may be unnecessary. On the other hand, such expressions as Dulles' attacks on "antheistic" Communism have an ideological, propagandistic tone that Williams and others may usefully call into question...
...open his eyes against the blinding force was painfully evident. And if old airmen winced when the flight control officer yammered and yelled into the tower microphone, broke in on the G.C.A. operator in hammy confusion, the G.C.A. operator himself was superbly true to life. Calm, careful, his every tone reassuring and reliable, he was just the man to bring a pilot home.* The true Lieut. Obenauf was surely willing to overlook the utterly silly last lines that the show put in his mouth: "Hey, I gotta pick up all that baby stuff from the Maxwells'." In real life...
Industrious Author Tabori, who has written 33 books, 28 feature films and 120 TV scripts, begins this volume in a spirit of friendly inquiry. But as the toll of human stupidities mounts, his tone seems to get more outraged and frenzied, particularly with the follies committed in the name of romantic love and religion. "Stupidity," he groans, "is as vast as all mankind." Is it curable? Yes, says Tabori gloomily, "provided, of course, that someone wants to be cured...