Word: toning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite his coziness, he has a keen sense of the skull beneath the skin, has set down chilling visions of approaching death. Though his most typical tone is somewhere between mockery and sentimentality, he can be fiercely satirical. During the war, when he worked at the Ministry of Information, Betjeman wrote a sardonic prayer...
Many an unprepared radio listener must have wondered one night this week if he had inadvertently tuned in the private wave length of the vice squad. "I have accounts with manufacturers." a girl was saying in a nasal, defensive tone. "The manufacturer himself calls me directly. I get in contact with two or three of my girl friends, and we discuss the terms. Usually they want a guarantee of $100-more if we give more considerations...
Plastic Hubcaps. A plastic hubcap that will not rust or dent was put on sale by Colorado Fiberglass Corp. Made to fit any 14-or 15-in. wheel, the hubcaps come in 20 two-tone color combinations, do not show scratches because the color runs all the way through. Cost: about the same as chrome hubcaps...
Divorced. Franchot Tone, 53, Cornell-educated (Phi Beta Kappa) actor; by Actress Dolores Dorn-Heft Tone, 23, his fourth wife; after nearly three years of marriage, no children; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
First performed in Venice last fall (TIME, Oct. 6). Threni is a 33-minute work for chorus, orchestra and six solo voices, in which Stravinsky utilizes for the first time all twelve tones of the tone-row technique that he recently adopted. Unrelievedly austere in mood, the work unfolds in a series of canons for two, three and four voices, choral chants, spare snatches of instrumental sound. Merely to cue the onstage forces properly was a tricky task, and Conductor Craft performed it brilliantly. Stabbing with a forefinger, lifting his shoulders in rhythmic shrugs, mouthing the Vulgate text in time...