Word: toning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, the tone of Quincy will be set by those upperclassmen who are willing to uproot themselves from their present Houses and actively participate in the creation of a new House," he said...
Outside New York, many newspapers have long since been softened to critical jelly by such threats and/or reprisals from producers and exhibitors. The tone of a review in the trade papers bears a remarkable relationship to advertising volume. Among the daily Los Angeles press, only the loftily independent Times Reviewer Philip K. Scheuer bucks a tendency among movie reviewers to play the role of "gee whiz" movie fans rather than movie judges...
Guts & Gumption. There were three main actions in the Leyte Gulf battle, and each had its special tone, which Historian Morison perfectly captures. The battle of Surigao Strait might be called Operation By-the-Book. The first section of the Japanese southern force sailed into a night slaughter of destroyer torpedoes and heavy fire from cruisers and old battleships, with a single Jap destroyer surviving to join the second section, which simply turned tail...
Drawing-room comedies, like drawing-room furniture, tend to be fragile and spindly, and with heavy handling The Pleasure of His Company might easily crash to bits. Happily, the authors have a feeling for tone, and have made the talk-half insulting and half elegant-a nice blend of spit and polish. The Donald Oenslager set is stylish. And with the help of a pleasant cast-Co-Author Skinner, Walter Abel, Charlie Ruggles, Dolores Hart, George Peppard-Cyril Ritchard has carried things farther. Acting papa, he has the grace and precision of a lithe figure skater; directing the play...
Starting from a tone that, in its intensity and glowing beauty was altogether appropriate to the extremely emotional Romanticism of the work, de Pasquale fully realized the poetic quality of the piece, giving the solo line character and identity. Some of his small touches were inspired; especially memorable is his sensitive treatment of the arpeggios at the close of the second movement, which were handled with subtle delicacy and grace...