Word: toning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late Soviet scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a breathless rundown of recent rocket developments culminates at the magic date of October 4, 1957. As past becomes future, satellites flourish, Soviet citizens view the "other" side of the moon on TV, the planets unfold their secrets, and the narrator's tone loses none of its confidence...
...transfer state funds from any closed school to any new segregated private schools, to provide, a general kickoff appropriation of $100,000-and he knew the legislators were with him. Governor Faubus, a darkly handsome and composed man when enjoying the smooth of life, set a quiet, deliberate tone as he read his prepared address. Said he: "It must be remembered that the Federal Government is the creature of the states and possesses only those powers delegated to it by the states . . . We must either choose to defend our rights against those who would usurp them or else surrender." Without...
...Goddess. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky and Actress Kim Stanley delivering a roaring diatribe against the Bitch Goddess, Success, at a pace that is sometimes slow, but in a tone that is marvelously Swift (TIME, July...
...Marxist councils before the revolution, the fact that German subsidies were of great importance to the Bolsheviks, and the massive extent of the funds offered by the policy of "expropriations," meaning armed robbery; Stalin himself carried out successful heists. Moorehead evokes the strange quality of Russian life with its tone of "brittle lethargy," the Byzantine bureaucracy of the Czarist system and the paternal absolutism of the Romanovs, which was inherited by the Russian revolutionaries and became "the core of [their] mind." Finally, Moorehead stresses the importance of police socialism-the system by which police agents became party leaders...
...Goddess. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky and Actress Kim Stanley delivering a roaring diatribe against the Bitch Goddess, Success, at a pace that is sometimes slow, but in a tone that is marvelously Swift (TIME, July...