Word: toning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presenting its case to the alumni the Veritas group tried to place in the Alumni Bulletin an advertisement which the magazine wisely turned down. Regardless of the tone of such an advertisement--whether a reasoned statement or a scurilous attack--the Bulletin acted correctly in rejecting it. The policy which it follows of avoiding intramural controversy is a healthy one; the Alumni Bulletin correctly sees itself as a pleasant journal which lets the alumni body keep in touch with each other and with the University. To get involved in factional fights within that body of alumni would merely destroy...
There seemed to be general agreement, however, that observers would be sent to this summer's NSA Congress and that Council members should continue to study in detail the scope and structure of the organization. Despite this feeling, it was evident from the tone of the discussion that the misgivings about NSA which led to last Fall's decision to withdraw were still present in the minds of most Council members...
...describing Pat as "nice, clean-cut, antiseptic, spiritless, pallid, pretentious and even a bit of a phony." Last week, in his syndicated column, he took a long look at Benny Goodman and decided that the King of Swing has lost his crown: "Gone is the fine, warm, throbbing tone. Gone is the great driving swing . . . What we have now is a faint echo, and that...
...intonation continues to improve. The main faults are an over-weighty bass, and a tendency to lose intensity on the sustained notes. A less pronounced and biting attack on each note would have supplied a smoother legato, particularly in the opening Purcell Overture, which was otherwise very satisfactory in tone...
...soloist, Neal Zaslaw and Richard Oldberg, both possess extremely fine techniques, which enabled them to handle easily the involved passage-work with which Mozart fills out his instrumental concertos. Zaslaw, playing the first Flute Concerto, in G, used a tone which, while more breathy than some tastes prefer, is even and manageable enough for delicate articulation. Oldberg's tone also veers away from the "pure" school, toward the specifically brassy sound...