Word: toning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although large and even exciting actions go on--mostly off stage--the mood and tone remain rather static and distant, as if the characters on stage were dimly conscious that an audience 3000 years away was watching...
...definitely second-class makes things pleasanter when traveling abroad. "It is no longer necessary to preserve British prestige. The loud, peremptory tone of command, once obligatory, may be dropped to a cringing mumble." Bravery is never demanded of citizens of second-class powers: "The day is over when a single cry of Au secours! put six British swimmers in the sea as one man. Any secours that's wanted can be furnished by Americans-or Russians." And one need never again dread "the anguish of handing over a fistful of lire, conscious of being done but fearful to make...
...Gross displayed a solid technique, good intonation, a bowing arm that was only occasionally uncontrolled, a full and resonant tone, and a generally imaginative stylistic approach...
...David has long since left problems of technique far behind. He is completely in the service of the music's content, and yesterday his taste was impeccable. He played well into the keys, and elicited from the piano a superb tone--none of the fortissimos had even a hint of harshness. In short, he played like his teacher, Rudolf Serkin, with all the latter's foot-stamping...
...scientists, including three dozen Nobel laureates. Pauling was balanced off against Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard Libby, a distinguished nuclear chemist himself, who declared that "hazards from fallout are limited" and that nuclear tests are needed to lessen the "awful threat" of nuclear war. But the telecast's general tone was one of doom. Intoned Murrow: "There is danger in the continued testing of nuclear weapons. Scientists disagree only as to the degree and depth of the danger...